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ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INSTITUTE 


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PAPERS RELATING TO ITS DEDICATION AND ITS HISTORY 



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BALTIMORE: 

PRINTED BY WILLIAM K. BOYLE 

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OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

JOHN P. KENNEDY, President. 
JOSIAS PENNINGTON, Vice-President 
ENOCH PRATT, Treasurer. 
CHARLES J. M. EATON, Secretary. 



J. P. KENNEDY, 
CHARLES J. M. EATON, 
THOMAS SWANN, 
JOHN B. MORRIS, 
JOSIAS PENNINGTON, 
WM. McKIM, 
DAVID S. WILSON, 
JOHN M. GORDON, 
SAMUEL W. SMITH, 
CHAUNCEY BROOKS, 
WM. F. MURDOCH, 
ENOCH PRATT, 



TRUSTEES, 

GEORGE WM. BROWN, 
GALLOWAY CHESTON, 
GEORGE P. TIFFANY, 
EDW. M. GREENWAY, Jr. 
WM. C. SHAW, 
S. T. WALLIS, 
CHARLES HOWARD, 
GEORGE W. DOBBIN, 
THOMAS W1UTRIDGE, 
JOSEPH CUSHING, Jr. 
REVERDY JOHNSON, Jr. 
THOMAS DONALDSON. 



J. MASON CAMPBELL, 

N. II. MORISON, Provost. 

P. R. UHLER, First Assistant Librarian. 



LETTEK. 



Baltimore, February 12th } 1857. 



Gentlemen : 



In pursuance of a purpose long' entertained by 
me, and which I communicated to some of you 
more than two years ago, I have determined, with- 
out further delay, to establish and endow an In- 
stitute in this City, which, I hope, may become 
useful towards the improvement of the moral and 
intellectual culture of the inhabitants of Baltimore^ 
and, collaterally to those of the State ; and, also, 
towards the enlargement and diffusion of a taste 
for the Fine Arts. 

My wishes, in regard to the scope and character 
of this Institute, are known to some of you through 
a personal communication of my purpose. In the 
sequel of this letter I shall further advert to that 
subject. 



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In presenting to you the object I propose, I wish 
you to understand that the details proper to its 
organization and government and its future con- 
trol and conduct, I submit entirely to your judg- 
ment and discretion ; and the perpetuity of that 
control I confide to you, and your successors, 
to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this 
letter. 

I request you to accept this trust as my friends, 
amongst whom, I hope there will ever be found 
the utmost harmony and concert of action, in all I 
that relates to the achievement of the good which 
it is my aim to secure to the City. 

You and your successors will constitute forever 
a Board of Trustees, twenty-five in number, to be 
maintained in perpetual succession, for the accom- 
plishment, preservation and supervision of the 
purposes for which the Institute is to be estab- 
lished. To you and your successors, therefore, I 
hereby give full and exclusive power to do whatso- 
ever you may deem most advisable, for the founda- 
tion, organization and management of the pro- j 
posed Institute : and to that end I give to you, and 
will place at your disposal, to be paid to you as { 
you may require, for the present, three hundred i 



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thousand dollars, to be expended by you in such 

manner as you may determine to be most conducive » 

to the effective and early establishment and future 

maintenance and support of such an Institute as 

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you may deem best adapted to fulfil my intentions 

as expressed in this letter. 

In the general scheme and organization of the 
Institute, I wish it to provide — 

First. — For an extensive Library to be well fur- j 
nished in every department of knowledge, and of 
the most approved literature ; which is to be main- j 
tained for the free use of all persons who may de- 
sire to consult it, and be supplied with every proper 
convenience for daily reference and study, within 
appointed hours of the week days of every year. 
It should consist of the best works on every subject 
embraced within the scope of its plan, and as com- 
pletely adapted, as the means at your command 
may allow, to satisfy the researches of students 
who may be engaged in the pursuit of knowledge 
not ordinarily attainable in the private libraries of 
the country. It should be guarded and preserved 
from abuse, and rendered efficient for the purposes 
I contemplate in its establishment^ by such regu- 
lations as the judgment and experience of the Trus- j 



tees may adopt or approve. I recommend, in ref- 
erence to such regulations, that it shall not be con- 
structed upon the plan of a circulating library; 
and that the books shall not be allowed to be taken 
out of the building, except in very special cases, 
and in accordance with rules adapted to them as 
exceptional privileges. 

Second. — I desire that ample provision and ac- 
commodation be made for the regular periodical 
delivery, at the proper season in each year, of lec- 
tures by the most capable and accomplished scholars 
and men of science, within the power of the Trus- 
tees to procure. These lectures should be directed 
to instructions in science, art and literature. 
They should be established with such regulations 
as, in the judgment of the Trustees, shall be most 
effectual to secure the benefits expected from them ; 
and should, under proper and necessary restrictions 
adapted to preserve good order and guard against 
abuse, be open to the resort of the respectable in- 
habitants, of both sexes, of the City and State: 
such prices of admission being required as may 
serve to defray a portion of the necessary expenses 
of maintaining the lectures without impairing their 
usefulness to the community. 



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In connection with this provision, I desire that 
the Trustees, in order to encourage and reward 
merit, should adopt a regulation by which a number 
of the graduates of the public High Schools of the 
City, not exceeding fifty of each sex, in each year, 
who shall have obtained, by their proficiency in 
their studies and their good behavior, certificates of 
merit from the Commissioners or superintending 
authorities of the Schools to which they may be at- 
tached, may, by virtue of such certificates, be en- 
titled, as an honorary mark of distinction, to free 
admission to the lectures for one term or season 
after obtaining the certificates. 

I also desire that, for the same purpose of en- 
couraging merit, the Trustees shall make suitable 
provision for an annual grant of twelve hundred 
dollars; of which five hundred shall be distributed 
every year, in money prizes, graduated according 
to merit, of sums of not less than fifty dollars, nor 
more than one hundred for each prize, to be given 
to such graduates of the public Male High Schools 
now existing or which may hereafter be established, 
as shall, in each year, upon examination and certi- 
ficate of the School Commissioners, or other per- 
sons having the chief superintendence of the same, 



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be adjudged most worthy, from their fidelity to 
their studies, their attainments, their moral deport- 
ment, their personal habits of cleanliness and 
propriety of manners : the sum of two hundred 
dollars to be appropriated to the purchase, in every 
year, of gold medals of two degrees, of which ten 
shall be of the value of ten dollars each, and twenty 
of the value of five dollars each, to be annually dis- 
tributed to the most meritorious of the graduating 
classes of the public Female High Schools ; these 
prizes to be adjudged for the same merit, and under 
the like regulations, as the prizes to be given to the 

| graduates of the Male High Schools. The remain- 
ing five hundred dollars to be, in like manner, dis- 
tributed in money prizes, as provided above for the 
graduates of the Male High School, in the same 
amounts respectively, to the yearly graduates in the 
School of Design attached to the Mechanics Institute 
of this City. To render this annual distribution of 
prizes effective to the end I have in view, I desire that 
the Trustees shall digest, propose, and adopt all 
such rules and provisions, and procure the corres- 
pondent regulations on the part of the public i'n- 

i stitutions referred to, as they may deem necessary 

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Third — I wish, also, that the Institute shall 
embrace within its plan an Academy of Music, 
adapted, in the most effective manner, to diffuse 
and cultivate a taste for that, the most refining of 
all the arts. By providing a capacious and suit- 
ably furnished saloon, the facilities necessary to 
the best exhibitions of the art, the means of study- 
ing its principles and practising its compositions, 
and periodical concerts, aided by the best talent 
and most eminent skill within their means to pro- 
cure, the Trustees may promote the purpose to 
which I propose to devote this department of the 
Institute. They will make all such regulations 
as, in their judgment, are most likely to render the 
Academy of Music the instrument of permanent 
good to the society of this city. As it will neces- 
sarily incur considerable expense for its support, 
I desire that it may be, in part, sustained by such 
charges for admission to its privileges as the Trus- 
tees may consider proper, and, at the same time, 
compatible with my design to render it useful to 
the community. And I suggest for their conside- 
ration the propriety of regulating the conditions of 
an annual membership of the Academy, as well as 
the terms of occasional admission to the saloon — if 



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they should consider it expedient at any time to j 
extend the privilege of admission beyond the 
number of those who may be enrolled as mem- 
bers. 

Fourth — I contemplate with great satisfaction, j 
as an auxiliary to the improvement of the taste, 
and, through it, the moral elevation of the charac- j 
ter of the society of Baltimore, the establishment 
of a Gallery of Art in the department of Paint- \ 
ing and Statuary. It is, therefore, my wish that ) 
such a gallery should be included in the plan of 
the Institute, and that spacious and appropriate j 
provision be made for it. It should be supplied, \ 
to such an extent as may be practicable, with the 
works of the best masters, and be placed under j 
such regulations as shall secure free access to it, 
during stated periods of every year, by all orderly 
and respectable persons who may take an interest 
in works of this kind ; and particularly that, under 
wholesome restraints to preserve good order and 
decorous deportment, it may be rendered instruc- 
tive to artists in the pursuit of their peculiar stu- 
dies and in affording them opportunity to make i 
drawings and copies from the works it may con- j 
tain. 



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As annual or periodical Exhibitions of Paintings 

and Statuary are calculated, in my opinion, to 
afford equal gratification and instruction to the 
community, and may serve to supply a valuable 
fund for the enrichment of the gallery, I suggest 
to the Trustees the establishment of such Exhibi- 
tions, as far as they may find it practicable from 
the resources within their reach. 

Lastly. — I desire that ample and convenient ac- 
commodation may be made in the building of the 
Institute for the use of the Maryland Historical 
Society, of which I am and have long been a mem- 
ber. It is my wish that that Society should per- 
manently occupy its appropriate rooms as soon as 
they are provided, and should, at the proper time 
when this can be done, be appointed by the Trus- 
tees to be the guardian and protector of the pro- 
perty of the Institute ; and that, if it accept this 
duty and, in conformity with my wish, shall remove 
into and take possession of the aj)artments designed 
for its use, it shall also be requested and empow- 
ered to assume the management and administra- 
tion of the operations of the several departments as 
the same shall be established and organized by the 
Trustees. That it shall, at a proper time in every 



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year, appoint from its own members appropriate 
and efficient Committees , to be charged respectively 
with the arrangement and direction of the opera- 
tions and conduct of eacli department in the func- 
tions assigned to each by the Trustees. That, in 
the performance of these duties, it shall keep in 
view the purposes which it is my aim to promote; 
give due attention to the details necessary to ac- 
complish them, and adopt suitable measures to 
execute the plan of organization made by the 
Trustees and carry into full and useful effect my 
intentions as disclosed in this letter. 

The Trustees, after the Historical Society shall 
have accepted these duties, shall, nevertheless, pos- 
sess a full and complete visitatorial power over the 
proceedings of the Society touching the subjects I 
have confided to the Board. To guard against any 
misapprehension which might lead to a conflict 
between these bodies, I beg it to be understood that, 
in this arrangement, I intend the power of the 
] Board to be adapted to the organization and gene- 
ral direction of the dej^artments, and that of the 
Society to their operations and conduct in confor- 
mity with such organization and general direction. 
I hope that the Board of Trustees and the Society 



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will always act in the discharge of the functions I 

have assigned to them respectively, with a liberal 
spirit of concert and co-operation and with a har- 
monious and united determination to render the 
Institute an agency of enduring benefit to the com- 
munity in which it is placed. 

If there be any legal incapacity in the Maryland 
Historical Society to assume and perform the duties 
which it is my wish it should undertake, the 
trustees will be careful to wait until that impedi- 
ment is removed, by the grant of proper power to 
that end by the Legislature, before they commit 
these duties to that body. And if, at any time 
hereafter, that Society should become extinct, it 
will be the duty of the Trustees then existing to 
assume to themselves the ministration and manage- 
ment of the several departments of the Institute 
in the details I have here assigned to the care of 
the Society. 

The Trustees will make such provision out of 
the monies I have now placed at their disposal, 
and out of such as I may hereafter give them, as 
may be necessary for the purchase of the ground 
and the erection of the building for the Institute ; 
and will also, in due time, make all suitable pro- 



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vision for the investment of the several funds 
required for the repair, preservation and insurance 
of the "building and other property connected with 
it ; for its fuel, lighting and furniture ; for the ser- 
vice of the Library and apartments belonging to 
it ; for the yearly purchase of books ; for the ser- 
vice, management and expense of the Lecture 
Department ; for the charges and support of the 
Academy of Music ; for the support, maintenance 
and gradual increase of the Gallery of Art ; for 
the supply of the yearly prizes to the graduates of 
the High Schools, and the School of Design ; and 
for all proper, contingent or incidental expenses of 
the Institute, in whatever branch the same may be 
needed. In the performance of this duty, I wish 
them to make a specific designation of the fund 
appropriated, from time to time, to each depart- 
ment, as well as of that for the general service of 
all ; and that these several appropriations be made 
in such proportions as the necessities of each de- 
partment may require and the means at the dis- 
posal of the Trustees may allow. And it is also 
my wish, in connection with this subject of the 
funds I have directed to be supplied, that they, 
as well as whatever I may hereafter supply, shall 




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always be held under the control and guardian- 
ship of the Trustees ? in conformity with such 
regulations as they may adopt for their preserva- 
tion, appropriation and investment, from time to 
time, in the administration of the trust. And that, 
when the Maryland Historical Society shall assume 
the management of the departments as I have men- 
tioned above, the Trustees shall put at their dis- 
posal, in each year, the amount they shall have 
appropriated for each service, as hereinbefore re- 
quired, to be disbursed by the Society according 
to its appointed destination. 

These, gentlemen, are the general instructions 
I have to impart to you for your guidance in the 
laborious duties I have committed to your care. 
You will perceive that my design is to establish an 
Institute which shall, in some degree, administer 
to the benefit of every portion of the community of 
Baltimore : which shall supply the means of pur- 
suing the acquirement of knowledge, and the study 
of art to every emulous student of either sex, who 
may be impelled by the laudable desire of improve- 
ment to seek it: which shall furnish incentives to 
the ambition of meritorious youth in the Public 
Schools, and in that useful School of Design under 



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the charge of the Mechanics Institute, by providing 
for those who excel, a reward, which, I hope, will 
be found to be, not only a token of honorary dis- 
tinction, but also a timely contribution towards the 
means of the worthy candidate who shall win it, for 
the commencement of a successful career in life: 
which shall afford opportunity to those whom for- 
tune has blessed with leisure, to cultivate those 
kindly and liberalizing arts, that embellish the 
character by improving the perception of the beau- 
tiful and the true, and which, by habituating the 
mind to the contemplation of the best works of 
genius, render it more friendly and generous to- 
wards the success of deserving artists in their early 
endeavors after fame. 

For the fulfilling and preserving of the trust I 
have confided to you, my wish is that you, gentle- 
men, or as many of you as may accept this appoint- 
ment, will meet together, at as early a day as may 
be convenient for you, and take such measures for 
your own organization and government as you 
may find necessary, making a record of your ac- 
ceptance and of all proceedings you may adopt. 
That if your full number of twenty-five should be 
rendered incomplete by the refusal of any of you 



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to accept the appointment, you will, as soon as 
practicable, fill the same by the selection of the 
necessary number from a list of two hundred names 
selected from the ranks of your most worthy fellow- 
citizens , which I herewith furnish you, and which 
list I desire you to enter upon your record for future 
use. 

I also desire and request that if, at any time 
hereafter during the life of the present generation, 
vacancies should occur in your number of twenty- 
five, by death, resignation, incapacity to serve or 
removal from the State, you and your successors 
shall fill such vacancies, by judicious selection from 
the list above mentioned of such person or persons 
therein named as may then be living and may be 
qualified, by capacity and good standing in the com- 
munity, to perform the duties required ; and when, 
in after time, this generation shall have passed 
away, I desire that your succession may be pre- 
served by the appointment to vacant places in your 
Board of such of your sons, or the sons of those on 
the list I have given you, as may then be accessi- 
ble to the choice of your successors and may be 
worthy, from their personal qualifications and good 
repute in Baltimore, to assume the charge of the In- 



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stitute. And, finally, when these sources shall fail, 
I desire that the succession in the Board of Trus- 
tees shall be ever maintained by the careful selec- 
tion, from time to time, of such eminent and capable 
citizens of Baltimore, as may be willing to admin- 
ister to the service of this community, by the de- 
votion of a portion of their time to a work which, 
I earnestly hope, may be found to be, both in the 
influence of its example and in the direct adminis- 
tration of its purpose, a long, fruitful, and pros- 
perous benefaction to the good people of Baltimore. 
I must not omit to impress upon you a sugges- 
tion for the government of the Institute, which I 
deem to be of the highest moment and which I 
desire shall be ever present to the view of the 
Board of Trustees. My earnest wish to promote, 
at all times, a spirit of harmony and good will 
in society ; my aversion to intolerance, bigotry and 
party rancor, and my enduring respect and love 
for the happy institutions of our prosperous re- 
public, impel me to express the wish that the In- 
stitute I have proposed to you, shall always be 
strictly guarded against the possibility of being 
made a theatre for the dissemination or discussion 
of sectarian theology or party politics ; that it 



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shall never minister, in any manner whatever, to 
political dissension, to infidelity, to visionary the- 
ories of a pretended philosophy which may be 
aimed at the subversion of the approved morals of 
society ; that it shall never lend its aid or influence 
to the propagation of opinions tending to create or 
encourage sectional jealousies in our happy country, 
or which may lead to the alienation of the people 
of one State or section of the Union from those of 
another. But that it shall be so conducted, through- 
out its whole career, as to teach political and re- 
ligious charity, toleration and beneficence, and 
prove itself to be, in all contingencies and condi- 
tions, the true friend of our inestimable Union, of 
the salutary institutions of free government, and 
of liberty regulated by law. I enjoin these pre- 
cepts upon the Board of Trustees and their succes- 
sors forever, for their invariable observance and 
enforcement in the administration of the duties I 
have confided to them. 

And now, in conclusion, I have only to express 
my wish, that, in providing for the building 
you are to erect, you will allow space for future 
additions in case they may be found necessary, 
and that in its plan, style of architecture, and 



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adaptation to its various uses, it may be worthy of 
the purpose to which it is dedicated, and may serve 
to embellish a City whose prosperity, I trust, will 
ever be distinguished by an equal growth in know- 
ledge and virtue. 

I am, with great respect, 

Your friend, 

GEORGE PEABODY. 



To 



Wm. E. Mayhew, 
John P. Kennedy, 
Chas. J. M. Eaton, 
Thomas Swann, 
George Brown, 
John B. Morris, 
S. wings Hoffman, 
G. W. Burnap, 
Wm. H. D. C. Wright, 
Josias Pennington, 
Wm. McKim, 
David S. Wilson, 
John M. Gordon. 



Samuel W. Smith, 
Chauncy Brooks, 
Wm. F. Murdoch, 
Enoch Pratt, 
J. Mason Campbell, 
Geo. W. Brown, 
Galloway Cheston, 
Geo. P. Tiffany, 
Wm. Prescott Smith, 
Chas. Bradenbaugh, 
Edw. M. Greenway, Jr. 
Wm. C. Shaw, 



APPOINTMENT OF PERSONS 

TO FILL VACANCIES REFERRED TO 

IN THE FOREGOING LETTER. 



Baltimore, February 14th, 1857. 
Gentlemen: 

In the organization of the Institute to be estab- 
lished in this City, in conformity with a plan 
adopted by me, I have confided its government to 
a Board of Trustees, twenty-five in number, to be 
preserved in constant and perpetual succession by 
their own selection and appointment. And as from 
the nature of the duties required of them, they are 
necessarily limited within a compass which excludes 
a large number of those whom I should be glad to 
interest in the success of the undertaking, I have 
thought I might, in some degree, assure myself of 
this advantage, by placing in the hands of the 
Board of Trustees, the names of two hundred citi- 
zens, selected from the most worthy and intelligent 



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of this City, comprised of many whom it has been 
my good fortune, in time past, to rank amongst 
my intimate personal friends, several of the sons 
of my old associates now gone, and a still greater 
number of distinguished members of this commu- 
nity, with whom, from my long residence abroad, 
I have been denied the pleasure of intimate ac- 
quaintance. 

These names have been communicated to the 
Trustees in a list for record, to be preserved by 
them for the purpose, so long as it may present 
persons qualified to perform the trust, of supply- 
ing the means of selection of the best citizens for 
such vacancies as must occur in the Board. 

I venture to assure myself, gentlemen, that you 
will allow your names to be retained on that list 
for the contingency I have contemplated, and that 
you will regard this appeal to your aid, in that 
contingency, as a proof of my resjDect for the 
position you hold in the confidence of this com- 
munity. 

With the highest esteem, I am, Gentlemen, 
Your humble Servant, 

GEOKGE PEABODY. 





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To Messrs. 


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Andrew Aldridge, 


Dr. Joshua I. Cohen, 


Augustus J. Albert, 


Dr. F. E. Chatard, 


Wm. J. Albert, 


Joseph Cushing, Jr. 


A. S. Abell, 


Charles R. Carroll, 


Wm. Stuart Appleton, 


J. I. Cohen, Jr. 


John H. Alexander, 


Geo. B. Coale, 


Key. J. C. Backus, 


Dr. Samuel Chew, 


Rev. L. P. Balch, 


Rev. A. C. Coxe, 


F. W. Brune, 


Jacob G. Davies, 


J. N. Bonaparte, 


J. J. Donaldson, \ 


Dr. John Buckler, 


John S. Donnell, 


Dr. T. H. Buckler, 


James Donnell, 


Elisha IN". Browne, 


Geo. W. Dobbin, 


Eobert P. Brown, 


Grafton L. Dulaney, 


William Bose, 


Thomas Donaldson, 


R. J. Baker, 


Austin Dall, 


Samuel M. Barry, 


H. Winter Davis, 


Dr. Thos. E. Bond, 


Basil T. Elder, 


N. C. Brooks, 


Geo. N. Eaton, 


James Birckhead, 


Hugh W. Evans, 


Hugh Birckhead, 


Hooper C. Eaton, 


Robert D. Brown, 


Wm. M. Ellicott, 


J. G. Bathurst, 


Hugh Davy Evans, 


B. C. Barroll, 


Rev. Alexius J. Elder, 


William Cooke, 


James I. Fisher, 


John Clark, 


Dr. Charles Frick, 


Charles Carroll, of C. 


Wm. F. Frick, 

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Rev. Richard Fuller ; 
E. S. Frey, 
John Gibson, 
S. K. George, 
Geo. R. Gaither, 
R. Gilmor, Jr. 
Win. F. Giles, 
Dr. Geo. S. Gibson, 
William Gill, 
Geo. M. Gill, 
Hugh Gelston, 
James George, 
Wm. H. Graham, 
Wm. Gilmor, 
W. W. Glenn, 
Henry Garrett, 
John Garrett, 
John S. Gittings, 
Lambert Gittings, 



John E. Howard, 
Edward Otis Hinckley, 
Charles Hinckley, 
Charles Howard, 
George L. Harrison, 
Wm. G. Harrison, 
R. M. Hare, 
Geo. C. Irwin, 
Reverdy Johnson, 
Rev. H. V. D. Johns, 
Reverdy Johnson, Jr. 
Hugh Jenkins, 
Wilmot Johnson, 
Dr. Christo. Johnston, 
Joseph King, Jr. 
Wm. H. Keighler, 
Anthony Kennedj^, 
Charles M. Keyser, 
Edward Kemp, 



Alex, B. Gordon, 


Dandridge Kennedy, 


j Patrick Gibson, 


J. H. B. Latrobe, 


\ John Henderson, 


Alex. Lorman, 


] Geo. B. Hoffman, 


Alonzo Lilly, 


Wm. H. Hoffman, 


G. W. Lurman, 


| Benj. C. Howard, 


Wm. P. Lemmon, 


J. Morrison Harris, 


Thos. W. Levering, 


Johns Hopkins, 


Wm. F. Lucas, 


Wm. Taylor Hall, 


B. H. Latrobe, 





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Richard Lemmon, 


Charles R. Pearce, 


Robert Leslie, 


Wm. C. Pennington, 


Jonathan Meredith, 


David N. Perine, 


Samuel Manning, 


Henry Patterson, 


Win. E. Mayhew, Jr. 


Charles H. Pitts, 


Thomas H. Morris, 


Rev. G. D. Purviance, 


Charles F. Mayer, 


William H. Price, 


Isaac Munroe, 


George W. Riggs, 


Robert Mickle, 


W. T. Riggs, 


Charles Marean. 


John Ridgely of Hampton, 


Rev. J. G. Morris, 


William Geo. Read, 


, Brantz Mayer, 


Dr. A. C. Robinson, 


Wm. D. Miller, 


Henry G. Rice, 


Henry May, 


Lloyd Rogers, 


R. N. Martin, 


George H. Sleuart, 


N. H. Morison, 


J. Spear Smith, 


Dr. J. H. McCulloh, 


David Stewart, 


Louis McLane, 


Albert Schumacher, 


Hazlitt McKim, 


S. F. Streeter, 


Robert McKim, 


James Swan, 


Dr. John P. Mackenzie, 


D. Sprigg, 


J. V. L. McMahon, 


Dr. J. A. Steuart, 


James McHenry, 


Dr. N. R. Smith, 


Ramsay McHenry, 


Archibald Sterling, 


Richard Norris, 


P. H. Sullivan, 


J. Spear Nicholas, 


I. Nevitt Steele, 


Columbus O'Donnell, 


Comfort Tiffany, 


John F. Poor, 

! 


Joseph Taylor, 





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Philip F. Thomas, 


Henry R. Wilson, 


Philip E. Thomas, 


Rev. W. E. Wyatt, 


Dr. J. Hanson Thomas, 


Robert C. Wright, 


Rev. 0. H. Tiffany, 


N. F. Williams, 


William S. Tiffany, 


William P. Whyte, 


; George Tiffany, 


Thomas Wilson, 


Alexander Turnbull, 


Rt. Rev. W. R. Whit- 


\ Robert A. Taylor, 


tin gham, 


W. A. Talbott, 


Samuel Gr. Wyman, 


i William H. Travers, 


S. Teackle Wallis, 


Joshua Vansant, 


John White, 


| B. F. Yoss, 


Nathaniel Williams, 


Henry Yon Kapff, 


Thomas Whitridge, 


| John C. Yanwyck, 


James S. Waters, 


Amos A. Williams, 


Thomas Winans, 


Henry White, 


Otho H. Williams, 


Lewin Wethered, 


William H. Young. 


Dr. John Whitridge, 

) 





LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. 



Baltimore, February 19th, 1857. 

i 

To George Peabody, Esq. 

Sir: — The undersigned acknowledge the receipt 
of your Letter, addressed to us on twelfth of this 
month, and with a grateful sense of this evidence of 
your confidence and regard, accept the office of 
Receivers and Dispensers of the Munificent Fund 
which you therein dedicate to the erection and 
endowment of an Institute in the City of Baltimore. 
On hehalf of those for whom this great benefaction 
is designed, we offer you most cordial thanks, with 
our admiration of the noble and generous heart 
which could conceive and execute so comprehensive 
a scheme for the improvement and gratification of 
thousands unknown and unborn. We will en- 
deavor to manifest a just appreciation of our obli- 
gations to you, by prompt and unremitted efforts 



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to carry out the views and suggestions contained in 
your Letter. And we earnestly hope you may he 
permitted, for many coming years, to have the 
satisfaction of witnessing the accomplishment of all 
you propose and desire, in founding so splendid a 
monument of enlightened Philanthropy and exalted 
Patriotism. 



John M. Gordon, 
Samuel W, Smith, 
Chauncy Brooks, 
Wm. F. Murdoch, 
Enoch Pratt, 
J. Mason Campbell, 
Geo. W. Brown, 
Galloway Cheston, 
Geo. P. Tiffany, 
Chas. Bradenbaugh, 



Wm. E. Mayhew, 
John P. Kennedy, 
Chas. J. M. Eaton, 
Thomas Swann, 
George Brown, 
John B. Morris, 
S. wings Hoffman, 
G. W. Burnap, 
Wm. H. D. C. Wright, 
Josias Pennington, 



Edw. M. Greenway, Jr. Wm. McKim, 
Wm. C. Shaw, David S. Wilson. 



Office of Duncan, Sherman & Co. Bankers, 

New York, March 11, 1857. 
To Messrs. W. E. Mayhew, John M. Gordon, 

John P. Kennedy, Sam'l W. Smith, 
Chas. J. M. Eaton, Chauncey Brooks, 
Thomas Swann, Wm. F. Murdoch, 

Geo. Brown, Enoch Pratt, 

John B. Morris, J. Mason Campbell, 

S. wings Hoffman, Geo. W. Brown, 
G. W. Burnap, Galloway Cheston, 

Wm. H. D. C. Wright, Geo. P. Tiffany, 
Josias Pennington, Wm. Prescott Smith,* 
Wm. McKim, Charles Braclenbaugh, 

David S. Wilson, Ed. M. Green way, Jr. 

and Wm. C. Shaw. » 

Gentlemen, — - Mr. George Peabody, of London, has placed 
in our hands a copy of a letter he addressed to you under 
date the 17th ulto. the object being to establish and endow 
an Institute in the City of Baltimore, and to place at your 
disposal for that purpose three hundred thousand dollars. 

In accordance with his request we now beg to open a 
credit, on his account, for that sum, (say $300,000) which 
amount we hold subject to the cheque of such persons, or 
their Chairman, acting as a Finance Committee, as you 
may authorize, by letter to us, to draw for the same, from 
time to time, in sums as the money may be required to 
carry out the objects contained in said letter. 

Requesting an acknowledgment of this letter, accompa- 
nied by such information as the credit requires, 
We are, gentlemen, with much respect, 
Your ob't servants, 

Duncan, Sherman & Co. 

* Wrn. Prescott Smith, declined, which vacancy was filled by the election of 
IVm. H. Keighler, who afterwards resigned, and S. Teackle Wallis was elected. 



Office of Duncan, Sherman & Co. Bankers^ 
New York, June 24, 1857. 
Messrs. W. E. Mayhew, John P. Kennedy and Others, Baltimore. 

Gentlemen, — Referring to our letter to you of March 11th 
iast, we have the pleasure to inform you, that Mr. George 
Peabody has requested us to lienor your drafts to the amount 
of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, (say $350,000) 
instead of $300,000, as therein expressed. We now there- 
fore increase the credit which we then advised you we had 
opened on his account, to the extent oi fifty thousand dollars j 
(say $50,000) to be drawn for as stated in our said letter of 
the 11th March. 

We have the honor to remain, 

Your obedient servants, 

Duncan. Sherman & Co. 



(Europa.) London, October 8, 1858. 

William E. Mayhew, Esq. 

Chairman Peabody Institute, Baltimore, 
Dear Sir, — In February, 1857, when I made a donation 
of three hundred thousand dollars, to found an Institute; 
Library, &c. in Baltimore, I intimated to you that, under 
favorable circumstances, I might, during my life, make up 
the sum to half a million of dollars. In May, last year, I 
added $50,000, and should my life be spared, you will con- 
sider this letter binding on me to pay the following sums 
at the periods stated, viz: 

On the opening of the Institute, 

One year after the opening. 

Two years after do. 

Three years after do. 

Four years after do. 

Five years after do. 
rnaking in all five hundred thousand dollars. 

I have thought it advisable to communicate this intention 
to you, that the Building Committee and others may be 
regulated in their expenditures accordingly. In the event 
of my death a Will, already made, provides amply for the 
Institute. 

Very respectfully and truly yours, 

George Peabody. 



25,000 
25,000 
25,000 
25,000 
25,000 
25,000 



Letters from Mr. Peabodt. 



Georgetown, Mass., May 8th, 1866. 

Gentlemen: 

Your letter dated 12th February last, containing copies 
of a correspondence which had taken place between your 
Board and the Maryland Historical Society, reached me a 
few weeks before I embarked from England. My engage- 
ments making preparations to come away prevented an 
earlier reply, and now as I hope in a few weeks to have the 
pleasure of seeing you in Baltimore, it will be unnecessary to 
add anything further, than that I considered your proposal, 
and have accordingly addressed a letter to the Historical 
Society, of which I herewith furnish a copy. 
I am with great respect, 

Your obedient servant, 

GEORGE PEABODY. 

To the Beard of Trustees of the 

Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. 



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New Haven, October 19, 1866. 

To the Trustees of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore. 

Gentlemen: 

I have to acknowledge the receipt, from Mr. Pennington, 
your President pro tern., of your official report of your action 
hitherto, with the accompanying statement of your Trea- 
surer. 

I beg now to say that I have experienced satisfaction and 
pleasure in reading these documents, and that I am, and 
indeed have before been, convinced that your course has 
been a wise and prudent one in your management of the 
Institute, and in your postponement of its inauguration and 
opening, under the unhappy circumstances and troubles 
which have so distracted our country. 

But as you are now about carrying into active operation 
the plan which the careful thought of these past years has 
devised, and as I believe that by increasing the means at 
your disposal I should increase the usefulnes of the Insti- 
tution of which you have charge, I deem this a proper occa- 
sion to make, for the same purposes as those expressed in 
my letter of February 12, 1857, the further gift of Five 
Hundred Thousand Dollars, which I shall be ready to pay 
into your hands in a few days. 

When I do so, I may have some suggestions, and possibly 
some instructions to regulate its future expenditure, and 
your future action. 

With great respect, I am 

Your obedient servant. 

GEORGE PEABODY. 



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Zanesville, November 5, 18G6. 
To the Trustees of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore. 

Gentlemen: 

In regard to the suggestions I intended to make, and 
which are referred to in my letter of the 19th of October, I 
will now submit them for your consideration, hoping they 
will prove useful and agreeable to you under the new order 
of things, caused by your assuming the whole administra- 
tive functions of the Institute. 

One of these matters has been already noticed by you. 
From an examination of the list of two hundred names from 
which my letter of the 1 2th February, 1857, directs selec- 
tions shall be made to fill the vacancies occurring in your 
Board, it is painful to observe how time has wrought its 
work in lessening the number; and though what remains 
affords an ample field for the present, the probability is that 
it must fail, before long, to furnish the supply expected by 
me ten years ago. I therefore agree at once with you, and 
recommend that in addition to any names on that list, 
which are eligible, you obtain from the Legislature the 
permission to make your selection in future to fill vacancies 
from the City of Baltimore and State of Maryland. 

It has also been intimated that the present number of 
Trustees composing your Board is larger than is needed for 
the effective working administration of the Institute. 
Thence I would propose, if in future a reduction of their 
number to fifteen (by omitting to fill vacancies that may 
occur until the number is reduced) may be considered advan- 
tageous to its future interests, that you should be given the 
discretion to make the change, and I authorize you to unite 
my request in your application to the Legislature for its 
accomplishment. 

I would mention, besides, that my instructions concerning 
the departments of the Academy of Music and Gallery of 
Art may not fully express the meaning they were intended 
to convey. With regard to them you will, of course, not 



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understand me as contemplating the establishment of ele- 
mentary schools. What 1 mainly desire and intend to 
accomplish, through their agencies, is that sort of instruc- 
tion, under able teachers in the theory and higher branches 
of music and its kindred arts to be promoted by the Insti- 
tute, for which, heretofore, there has been no provision in 
your community, and which students have been obliged to 
seek abroad. 

And finally, I take leave of the subject with the conviction 
that all the energies of the Institute will be required, for the 
objects contemplated in its establishment, and that its pre- 
servation and usefulness can only be maintained by keeping 
its buildings, as well as everything else under its control, 
exclusively devoted to its own uses and purposes. 
I am, witli great respect, 

Your humble servant, 

GEORGE PEABODY. 



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Georgetown, Mass. May 8, 1866. 
Gentlemen: 

I received, before I left England, from the Board of Trus- 
tees of the Peabody Institute, copies of the correspondence 
which had taken place between them and your Society up 
to the 12th February last, and since my arrival I have seen 
the printed statement published by your Society, dated 5th 
April. 

After a proper consideration due to the important subject 
to which those papers refer, I am pained to conclude that 
there exists insuperable obstacles in the way to prevent that 
harmony of action and purpose which I contemplated in 
my letter of the 12th February, 1857, founding the Insti- 
tute that bears my name. 

I am fully aware of your rights in the question at issue, 
but it is thought by those who understand the subject, that 
those rights should be relinquished in this case, to carry 
out a plan, in which I hope will be found my sincere desire 
to promote the interests of your Society, as well as the bene- 
fit to the community which it is the design of the Institute 
to accomplish. 

I had hoped that I should never have been called upon 
to interfere by advice or otherwise in the management of 
the affairs of the Institute, and up to this moment I have 
declined to do so, but the difference of views being of a 
nature unfavorable to any arrangement by which your 
Society and the Trustees can be expected to come together 
and carry out, harmoniously, two separate administrations, 
I feel that I am called upon to ask you to do me the favor 
to decline the acceptance of the part I have assigned to your 
Society in the Institute in my letter of the 12th February, 
1857. 

It would be a source of extreme and lasting regret to me, 
if by any disagreement I should be disappointed in my 
intention to fulfil one of the chief purposes of my visit to 
my native land, at this time, and as my arrangements to do 
so will mainly depend on your decision, you will greatly 



34 

oblige me if you will reply to me here, and also to send a 
copy of it to the Board of Trustees at as early a moment as 
will be convenient to yourselves. 

I have also sent a copy of this letter to them. 
I am with great respect, 

Your obedient servant, 

GEORGE PEABODY. 

To the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md. 



The request in thi3 letter was complied with by a resolution of the Society, 
passed at its meeting, 24th May, 1866. 



DEED, ACT OF INCORPORATION, 
AMENDMENT OF CHARTER, BY-LAWS, 

LIBRARY ORGANIZATION". 



DEED. 

Whereas, on the twelfth day of February, in the year 

of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, 
I addressed to William E. Mayhew and others a letter, of 
which a copy is hereto annexed, and made part hereof, and 
it has been thought advisable that I should, by an instru- 
ment more formal, perpetuate the views and purposes 
entertained by me in regard to the establishment of an 
Institute in the City of Baltimore. 

Now, therefore, it is hereby witnessed that I, George 
Peabody, heretofore of the City aforesaid, do by these pre- 
sents ratify and confirm, in all things, the letter aforesaid, 
and all and singular, the statements therein contained, and 
do declare that the persons named in said letter, (with the 
exception of William Prescott Smith, who has declined to 
give his co-operation in the premises,) their associates and 
successors, shall hold the moneys therein designated to 
have been given them, as the same may be, by them, re- 
ceived from me, and any further sums which I may appro- 
priate in this behalf, in trust, for the erection, endowment, 
and perpetual maintenance, in the City of Baltimore, of an 
Institute, of the character so by me designated, and to be 
held, owned and managed by them, in the manner, and 
pursuant to the directions, which are at large set forth 
in the letter aforesaid. 

And, in addition to, but not in derogation of, said direc- 
tions, I do hereby further declare that if, from any cause 
whatever, of which my said Trustees, their associates and 
successors, shall be the exclusive judges, there shall be a 
failure on the part of the Maryland Historical Society to 
undertake or prosecute the functions which 1 have indicated 
in my said letter, as hereafter to be confided to it, then, 



and in that event, and unless they see fit to assume these 
functions themselves, I hereby declare it to be the duty of 
my said Trustees, their associates and successors, and they 
are hereby authorized to select some other agency compe- 
tent, in their judgment, to carry out my views in the 
premises. 

And I do hereby further declare and direct, that my said 
Trustees, if they think fit, shall be and they are hereby 
fully empowered to procure themselves, their associates and 
successors to be incorporated under the authority of the 
State of Maryland; but care shall be taken, in that event, 
that the succession to and government of the trust, so as 
aforesaid created by me, and the ends and aims which I 
thereby contemplate, and the means of their attainment, 
shall be kept and observed inviolate, as I have in the letter 
aforesaid, and by this instrument set forth and ordained. 

In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, 
at the City of Charleston, this fourth day of March, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- 
seven. GEORGE PEABODY, [Seal.] 

Be it remembered, and it is hereby certified, that on this fourth day 
of March, A. D. 1857, before me, William Poncher Miles, the Mayor 
of Charleston, personally appeared George Peabody, Esq., the party 
executing the foregoing instrument of writing, and acknowledged the 
same to be his Act and Deed. 

In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand 

and the seal of the City, on the day and year 

[Seal Place.] first above mentioned. The word February on 

the preceding page being first erased, and 

March substituted therefor. 

Wm Porcher Miles, Mayor. 

Received to be recorded the 16th day of June, 1857, 
same day recorded in Charter Record, E. D. No. 3, folio 
186, &c. and examined Per Edward Dowung, Clerk, 



J± TST JtCT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE CITY 
OF BALTIMORE. 



The Charter of the Peabody Institute was granted by the Legis- 
lature of Maryland, by Act of Assembly, passed March 9th, 1858, 
chapter 209, as follows: 

Whereas, George Peabody, Esq., of London, Preamble, 
formerly of Baltimore, has recently made a munifi- 
cent donation for the purpose of founding an 
Institute in the City of Baltimore, the design and 
objects of which are set forth in a letter from Mr. 
Peabody, to certain persons therein named, of 
which the following is a copy. 

[The letter, which is copied at length in the 
charter, is not here inserted, as it is contained in 
a pamphlet printed by John D. Toy, in 1857, for 
the Trustees of the Peabody Institute.] 



4 

rSuld. ^ n d whereas, the list of two hundred names, 
referred to in the foregoing letter, is contained in 
another letter from Mr. Peabody to certain per- 
sons therein named, of which the following is a 
copy. 

[Mr. Peabody's second letter is not here inserted, 
as it is contained in full in said pamphlet.] 

preamble And whereas ^ the trust created by said letter, first 

continued. " 

above recited, was duly accepted by all the persons 
to whom said letter was addressed, except William 
Prescott Smith, Esq., as appears by the reply of 
those so accepting, of which the following is a 
copy. 

[Said letter of acceptance is not here inserted, 
as it is contained in full in said pamphlet.] 

preamble And whereas, said George Peabody, deeming it 

continued. . . 

advisable to perpetuate by a more formal instru- 
ment than said letter first above recited, his views 
and purposes in relation to said Institute, by deed 
dated the fourth clay of March, eighteen hundred 
and fifty-seven, and recorded among the Charter 
Records of the City of Baltimore, in Liber E. D. 
No. 3, folio 186, &c, did expressly ratify and con- 
firm in all things said letter, and all and singular 
the statements therein contained, and did make 
said letter a part of said deed, and did declare and 



5 

provide that the persons named in said letter, with 
the exception of William Prescott Smith, Esq., 
who declined to accept the trust by said letter 
created, their associates and successors should hold 
the moneys in said letter designated to have been 
given, as the same might by them bj received, and 
any further sums which he, the said Peabody, 
might appropriate in trust for the erection, endow- 
ment and perpetual maintenance in the City of 
Baltimore, of an Institute of the character in said 
letter designated, and to be held, owned and 
managed by them in the manner, and pursuant to 
the directions therein set forth. And whereas, in 
addition to, but not in derogation of said direc- 
tions, the said Peabody, by said deed further 
declared, that if from any cause whatever, of 
which said Trustees, their associates and successors 
should be the exclusive judges, there should be a 
failure on the part of the Maryland Historical 
Society to undertake or prosecute the functions 
which he, the said Peabody, had indicated in his 
said letter, as thereafter to be confided to it, then 
and in that event, and unless they should see fit to 
assume those functions themselves, the said Pea- 
body declared it to be the duty of his said trustees, 
their associates and successors, and they are thereby 
authorized to select some other agency, competent 
in their judgment to carry out. his views in the 
premises. And ivhereas, the said Peabody, by said 
deed further declared and directed that his said 



6 

Trustees, if they should think fit, should be and 
they are thereby fully empowered to procure them- 
selves, their associates and successors, to be incor- 
porated under the authority of the State of Mary- 
land, and that care should be taken, in that event, 
that the succession to and government of the trust, 
so as aforesaid created by him, and the ends and 
aims which he thereby contemplated, and the 
means of their attainment, should be kept and 
observed inviolate, as set forth in said letter, and 
the above recited provisions of said deed. 

And whereas, William H. Keighler, Esq., has 
been duly chosen in place of William Prescott 
Smith, Esq., who declined, as aforesaid; And 
whereas, for the purpose of carrying out effectu- 
ally the design of Mr. Peabody, and of perpetu- 
ating and forever preserving, for the benefit of 
future generations, the noble Institution which he 
has founded, a special Act of Incorporation is 
necessary and proper ; therefore, 
incorporated Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of Maryland, That William E. Mayhew, John P. 
Kennedy, Charles J. M. Eaton, Thomas Swann, 
George Brown, John B. Morris, S. wings Hoff- 
man, G. W. Burnap, William H. D. C. Wright, 
Josias Pennington, William McKim, David S. 
Wilson, John M. Gordon, Samuel W. Smith, 
Chauncy Brooks, William F. Murdoch, Enoch 
Pratt, J. Mason Campbell, George W. Brown, 
Galloway Cheston, George P. Tiffany, Charles 



7 

Bradenbaugh, Edw. M. Greenway, Jr., William 
C. Shaw and William H. Keighler, be and they 
are hereby incorporated by the name of "The 
Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore," and 
said persons and their successors shall constitute 
a Board of Trustees, twenty-five in number, of 
said Institute, to be maintained in perpetual suc- 
cession, and shall have all the powers of a body 
corporate, necessary or proper, to accomplish and 
carry out the purposes for which said Institute is 
designed, as declared and set forth in said letter of 
said George Peabody, first above recited, and in 
the clauses and provisions above recited, of said 
deed of said Peabody. 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That said May pass 

By-Laws. 

Board of Trustees shall have the power to make 
all necessary or proper by-laws, and to alter or 
repeal the same at pleasure, and to fill up by elec- 
tion all vacancies which shall occur in their body, 
so that the number of twenty-five Trustees shall 
always be preserved. 

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Authorized 

to purchase 

Board shall have the power to acquire by purchase property, 
or otherwise, and to hold in and by said corporate 
name of "The Peabody Institute of Baltimore," 
and for the purposes thereof, property, real, per- 
sonal and mixed, and to convey and transfer the 
same at pleasure. 

Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That all pro- Exempted 
perty which said Institute shall ever hold or pos- ti01 *- 



8 

sess, shall be free and exempt from all taxation of 

the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland. 

Banking Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That nothing 

privileges ^ r 

prohibited. j n ^jg j± c ^ s h a }i \) Q construed, to confer banking 

privileges on said Peabody Institute, 
value of real Sec 6. And be it enacted, That the investments 

estate not to 

So e ooo. ^ n rea, l es *ate, by said Peabody Institute, author- 
ized by this Act, shall not exceed in amount six 
hundred thousand dollars. 



A SUPPLEMENTAL ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE CITY 
OF BALTIMORE. 

CHAPTER 339. 

A Supplement to AN ACT entitled, an Act to p a&6 ed 
incorporate the Peabody Institute of the City ol isS. 
Baltimore, passed on the ninth day of March, 
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, chapter two 
hundred and nine. 

Whereas, at the request of George Peabody, Preamble. 
Esquire, the founder of the Peabody Institute of 
the city of Baltimore, the Maryland Historical 
Society, by a resolution thereof, passed on the 
twenty-fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and 
sixty-six, rescinded its acceptance of the trust in 
reference to said Institute, which had been reposed 
in said Society by Mr. Peabody; and whereas, the 
performance of all the functions- of the Institute 
has been assumed by the Trustees thereof, and has 



10 

devolved on them, and Mr. Peabody has subse- 
quently increased the funds of said Institute to 
one million of dollars by a recent munificent dona- 
tion of five hundred thousand dollars; and whereas, 
various persons originally named by Mr. Peabody 
in his letter of the fourteenth of February, eigh- 
teen hundred and fifty-seven, printed in the char- 
ter of said Institute, as eligible to fill vacancies 
occurring in the Board of Trustees thereof have 
died, and it is desirable that a large and unre- 
stricted choice should be given to said Trustees in 
filling vacancies which now exist or may occur 
in their body; and whereas , Mr. Peabody has ex- 
pressed a' desire that the charter of said Institute 
should be altered as herein provided, in order to 
conform to the altered condition of its affairs; 
therefore, 

Board of Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of Maryland, That the Board of Trustees of the 
said Institute, if they shall find that the number 
of twenty-five Trustees is larger than is needed for 
the effective and advantageous administration of 
the Institute, may reduce the number to fifteen by 
omitting to fill vacancies which may from time to 
time occur in the Board, and when so reduced the 
number of Trustees shall always thereafter con- 
sist of fifteen. 

vacancies Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all vacancies in 

to be filled. 

the Board, now existing or which may hereafter 
occur, may be filled by the Board by the election 



11 

of any person or persons residing in the city of 
Baltimore or State of Maryland, who, in the judg- 
ment of the Board, may be suitable and qualified 
for the office. 

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That, ivhereas, the Name or 

Institute. 

name of such Institute is in one place in said char- 
ter incorrectly printed, the proper name of said 
Institute is the "Peabody Institute of the City of 
Baltimore." 

Sec. 4. And be it enacted. That everything in Repealed, 
the Act to which this is a supplement relating to 
the Maryland Historical Society be and the same 
is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall Iu,orce - 
take effect from the date of its passage. 



BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF 
BALTIMORE. 



i. 

The Trustees shall meet on the 12th of February, on the 
first Thursday of April, the first Thursday of June, and 
the first Thursday of November in every year at the Insti- 
tute, at 12 o'clock A. M., unless otherwise ordered by the 
Board; and special meetings may be called at any time by 
the President, Vice-President, or any three Trustees. A 
quorum for the transaction of business shall consist of 
seven members, including the presiding officer. In case 
the 12th of February shall fall on Sunday, the annual 
meeting shall be on the following day. But any of said 
regular or special meetings may be continued by adjourn- 
ment from time to time, by a vote of the members who 
may be present. 

II. 

The officers of the Board shall consist of a President, 
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be 
elected by ballot at the February meeting in every year, to 
hold their offices for a period of twelve months, and until 
their successors are elected. The Board shall also at the 



annual meeting, or at am^ other meeting when it shall be 
deemed necessary, elect, or provide for the appointment of, 
a Provost, Assistant Librarian, and such other officers of the 
Institute as may be found to be required. The officers thus 
appointed shall continue in their respective offices for such 
periods as they may be appointed thereto, and during the 
pleasure of the Trustees and the incumbents respectively, 
each party being entitled to reasonable notice of the deter- 
mination of the other to sever the relation. 

III. 

At the regular meeting in June, the following Com- 
mittees shall be appointed by the President, each of which 
shall consist of five members: 

An Executive Committee. 

A Finance Committee. 

A Committee on the Library. 

A Committee on Lectures. 

A Committee on the Academy of Music. 

A Committee on the Gallery of Art. 

A Committee on Premiums. 

A Law Committee. 

A Committee on Accounts. 

Said Committees shall serve for twelve months, and until 
their successors are appointed. Vacancies in Committees 
shall be filled by the President. 

IV. 

The President shall take the chair at all meetings, and 
exercise the usual functions of such an officer, including 
the appointment of all committees, except in cases where 
the Trustees shall otherwise direct. 

V. 

The Vice-President, in the absence of the President, 
shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of the 
President. 



VI. 

The Secretary shall have the custody and care of all the 
records, deeds and other papers of the Trustees. He shall 
give special notice of all meetings. He shall keep full and 
accurate minutes of the proceedings of each meeting, and 
record them in substantial books to be provided by him for 
the purpose, and at each meeting the minutes of the pre- 
ceding meeting shall be read. The Secretary or the Pro- 
vost may open all letters addressed to the Trustees or to the 
Institute. 

VII. 

The Treasurer shall take into his custody the money and 
securities of the Institute and account for and disburse them 
in accordance with these By-Laws, and such orders as may 
be made by the Trustees from time to time. He shall 
deposit all moneys received by him in some bank or banks 
in this City, to be selected by the Trustees, and they shall 
only be drawn out by his check, on the proper voucher 
corresponding thereto, signed by the Provost, and the 
Chairman of the Committee, or in his absence, by some 
member thereof, for which the use of the money is required, 
and in accordance with the appropriation made by the Trus- 
tees for the purpose. He shall make quarterly reports to 
the Trustees. 

VIII. 

No moneys shall be paid for any purpose except in pur- 
suance of specific appropriations made by the Trustees, or 
except by Committees, the Provost or other officer of the 
Institute acting in pursuance of instructions given by the 
Trustees. But the Committees on Lectures, on the Gallery of 
Art, and on the Academy of Music, shall place in the hands 
of the Provost, to be disbursed by him for the use of their 
respective departments, all moneys received from the sale of 
tickets of admission, and from tuition in art and music, of 
which as earnings of the said Committees he shall render a 



separate account to the Treasurer from time to time during 
the season of the current year. And for all moneys appro- 
priated by the Trustees for the use of the said Committees 
respectively, and also for the use of the Committee on the 
Library, which shall be drawn for in the form required as 
declared in Section 19 of these By-Laws, the Provost shall 
make to the Trustees at each regular meeting, a report, 
stating in separate accounts for each Committee the amount 
of the same received and expended by him. 

IX. 

The Executive Committee shall have the general charge 
and supervision of such affairs of the Institute as are not 
confided to other Committees,, and of such as are specially 
entrusted to it, and it shall be their duty to recommend 
from time to time such plans to the Trustees as in their 
judgment it would be advisable to adopt. The charge of 
the purchase of furniture, of repairs of building, and of 
the ordinary expenditure of the business of the Institute 
shall belong to this Committee. 

X. 

The Finance Committee shall have the power at all times 
to examine the accounts and securities of the Treasurer 
and Provost, and to prohibit any application or use of the 
funds which they may deem unauthorized by the Trustees. 
At the meeting in June in each year, after an examination 
of all the stock and securities held by the Institute, they 
shall report thereon, and give their opinion whether or 
not any change of investments is advisable; and all invest- 
ments shall be made by the Treasurer under their direc- 
tion in pursuance of the instructions of the Trustees. 

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The Committee on the Library shall have the general 
charge and supervision of the Library and Beading Room, 
and the management and care thereof, including the pur- 
chase of books and periodicals. 



XII. 

The Committee on Lectures shall have the general charge 
and supervision of the lectures, including the subjects and 
courses of lectures to be given and the lecturers to be 
appointed. 

XIII. 

The Committee on the Academy of Music shall have the 
general charge and supervision of the Academy of Music, 
and the management and care thereof, including the con- 
certs to be given and the instruction to be furnished. 

XIV. 

The Committee on the Gallery of Art shall have the 
general charge and supervision of the Gallery of Art and 
management and care thereof, including the purchase of 
models and works of art, the exhibitions to be given and 
the instruction to be furnished. 



XV. 

The Committee on Premiums shall have charge of the 
distribution of premiums to the High Schools and the 
School of Design. 

XVI. 

The Law Committee shall consider and report upon any 
question requiring legal advice, and have charge generally 
of the law business of the Institute. 



XVII. 

The Committee on Accounts shall examine and report 
upon the quarterly accounts of the Treasurer and Provost, 
and any other accounts requiring examination by the 
Trustees. 



XVIII. 

The Provost shall be the general executive officer of the 
Institute, and shall have the management of every depart- 
ment thereof, under the direction of the several Committees 
and the Trustees. He shall, under such direction, have 
control over all the other executive officers of the Institute, 
shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received and 
disbursed by him, and shall at the regular meetings, and 
at all other times when required, render to the Trustees a 
full statement of his accounts, and at the meeting in June 
shall make a report of the condition of every department, 
with such suggestions for correction and improvement as 
his experience may enable him to make. 

XIX. 

All bills or accounts for the payment of money by the 
Treasurer, except such as shall be specially ordered to be 
paid by the Trustees, shall be first examined by the Pro- 
vost and signed by him and the Chairman of the Com- 
mittee, or in his absence, by some member thereof, for 
whose use the expenditure is made. In the absence of the 
Provost, the approval of the President or Secretary shall 
be sufficient. 

XX. 

At all regular meetings of the Trustees the order of busi- 
ness after calling the roll shall be as follows: 

I. Beading the minutes of the preceding meeting. 

II. Unfinished business from the preceding meeting. 

III. Report from the Treasurer. 

IV. Report from the Provost. 

V. Reports from the Committees in the following order: 

1. The Executive Committee. 

2. The Finance Committee. 

3. The Committee on the Library. 



4. The Committee on Lectures. 

5. The Comrnitte'e on the Academy of Music. 

6. The Committee on the Gallery of Art. 

7. The Committee on Premiums. 

8. The Law Committee. 

9. Committee on Accounts. 
10. Special Committees. 

VI. Other business. 

The usual parliamentary rules shall govern the delibera- 
tions of the Trustees, and, upon the demand of any one 
Trustee, the vote upon any proposition shall be taken by 
yeas and nays, and the yeas and nays recorded. 

XXI. 

These By-Laws shall not be abrogated or altered except 
by resolution offered at one and acted on at the next suc- 
ceeding meeting of the Trustees. 



Tliese amended By-Laios were adopted November 19th, 1867. 



REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 



The Committee on the Library beg leave to submit the 
following Report: 

They have found in the consideration of the question 
relating to the organization of the Library referred to them, 
that at the present time, they cannot advance farther in 
the treatment of the subject, than to submit to the attention 
of the Board a few fundamental propositions, which they 
deem it necessary to be agreed upon as the basis upon which 
the Library shall be commenced. 

If these propositions shall meet the concurrence of the 
Board, the Committee may then proceed to an examination 
of the subordinate points proper to be adjusted for the more 
full development of the plan upon which the Library is to 
constructed. 

The Committee are of the opinion that the means presumed 
to be at the disposal of the Board for the establishment 
of the Library render it advisable that the first distribution 
of funds for this purpose should be regulated with a view to 
a Library of Fifty Thousand volumes. 

That the selection of the Books proper to a Library of the 
size contemplated shall be made by the Committee, with 
such aid as they may be able to derive frcm sources open 
to their consultation and co-operation. 

That in adjusting the character and number of Works 
to be assigned to each branch of science and literature in a 
Library of the size contemplated, they shall adhere scrupu- 
lously to such an allotment as shall impart to the Library 
the character of a general and comprehensive collection of 
science and literature, exhibiting as far as the limits pre- 
scribed to the plan will allow, the standard works in each 
branch of science adapted to the illustration of its present 
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state of advancement, and also exhibiting within the same 
limits the most approved works of what is understood to be 
literature as distinc from science. 

That special attention be directed to the most approved 
collections of history through the most authentic works in 
that department of knowledge, embracing in the scope of 
this direction the materials of history as they exist in pub- 
lished Archives, Memoirs, Biographies Treatises, and Pam- 
phlets. 

That the plan of the Library as above proposed shall also 
include a due and proper proportion of works of philosophy 
as distinguished from physical and abstract science, works 
pertaining to personal biography and narrative, discourse 
and oratory, a selection of works of fiction of established 
merit, both in prose and poetry, and works generally known 
under the designation of classics. 

The Committee submit the foregoing views to the Board 
as presenting the questions upon which they deem it proper 
to have an early determination, reserving to themselves a 
further report hereafter upon such subjects in connection 
with the establishment and arrangement of the Library as 
in the progress of their duty they may find occasion to 
submit. 

[Details of appointment of Librarian, preparation of a cata- 
logue of books to be purchased, salaries, &c. omitted.] 

For the present, therefore, they recommend to the adop- 
tion of the Board the following Resolution. 

Resolved, That the several propositions relating to the 
establishment and character of the Library presented in the 
above report of the Library Committee be accepted by the 
Board, and the Committee be authorized and directed to 
proceed in the duty assigned to them, in conformity with 
the plan laid down in the same. 

Adopted by the Board of Trustees, April 5, 1860. 



Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 

December, 1867. 
CIBCTJLAR. 

The Board of Trustees having directed that the Reading 
Room should be open in the evening, as soon as the col- 
lection of Books in the Library would he sufficient to he of 
service to the community, the Committee on the Library 
beg leave to inform you that the Reading Room has been 
opened in the evening since the 2d November last, and that 
the hours of free admission are from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. 
and from 7 P. M. to 10 P. M. every day, except Sunday 
and Holidays, under the same rules and regulations as 
have been established for day admission. 

Without entering into details of its classification, the 
collection of Books on the shelves, amounting to over 
24,000 volumes, though but a beginning, includes a fair 
proportion of selected works in all departments of know- 
ledge, not usually found in private collections. Intended 
to supply the wants of readers in all walks and professions, 
additions are being carefully, and as rapidlj r made, as is 
consistent with a proper regard for its healthful growth 
and practical use, as the Library of Reference described in 
the letter of its munificent Founder. 

You are respectfully requested to avail yourself of the 
invitation here presented, and to make its claims and 
advantages known to those within your influence, if you 
consider them deserving your approval. 

If you will suggest the title of any valuable work needed 
by you, and that you will recommend to be purchased for 
the Library, the Committee will be glad to receive it, 
addressed to Mr. N. H. Morison, Provost of the Institute. 

CHARLES J. M. EATON, 
J. PENNINGTON, 
REVERDY JOHNSON, Jr. 
GEORGE W. DOBBIN, 
CHARLES HOWARD, 

Committee on the Library. 



Dedication Ceremonies. 



COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS, 

TBUSTEES. 

EDWARD M. GREENWAY, Jr. 
JOSEPH CUSHING, Jr. 
GEORGE P. TIFFANY. 



COMMITTEE OF RECEPTION 

GEORGE WM. BROWN, 
GALLOWAY CHESTON, 
THOMAS WHITRIDGE, 
REVERDY JOHNSON, Jr. 
CHAUNCEY BROOKS, 
JOHN B. MORRIS, 
SAMUEL W. SMITH, 
WM. F. MURDOCH, 
S. T. WALLIS, 
CHARLES HOWARD, 
THOMAS DONALDSON. 



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3 REFAC E 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees on the 1st of 
November, 1866, the Executive Committee were instructed 
to collect and publish in pamphlet form Mr. Peabody's 
speeches, the addresses of Governor Swann and Mr. Ken- 
nedy, and the other proceedings at the Dedication of the 
Institute. 

It was desirable that these papers, which are to he found 
in the following pages, should be published at the moment, 
and in a form separate from any preceding or subsequent 
event in the history of Mr. Peabody's nobie gift to our 
City. But circumstances arising to cause considerable 
delay in obtaining corrections in the preparation of the 
papers, it was thought better to postpone the printing of 
them until other documents could be prepared, so as to 
have them all bound together in one volume, with Mr. 
Peabody's letters relating to the foundation of the Insti- 
tute, the Deed, Act of Incorporation, and Amendment of 
Charter, the amended By-Laws, the organization of the 
Library, and the letter of the Vice-President of the Board 
to Mr. Peabody, with the Treasurer's general financial 
statement, thus completing a full account of the affairs of 
the Institute up to the 1st January, 1868. 

The building of the Institute fronts on Mount Vernon 
Place, in the centre of which rises the marble column of 
the Washington Monument. It is constructed of the same 
kind of white marble from the vicinity of Baltimore, and was 
commenced in the spring of 1858 and completed in 1861. 
The plan contemplates its extension to double its present 
dimensions. The preparations for its dedication having 
been made to harmonize with Mr. Peabody's arrange- 



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ments, a deputation of the Trustees proceeded to Phila- 
delphia to receive him and his friends and inform them of 
the programme that had heen adopted. A special car was 
provided for their use by the Philadelphia and Wilming- 
ton Rail Road Company, and they were met at the Susque- 
hanna River by the Board of Trustees of the Institute. On 
' their arrival in the City, Mr. Peabody was received by 
the Mayor and City Council as the guest of the City, and 
escorted to Barnum's Hotel. 

On Thursday, the 25th October, 1866, the ceremonies of 
the dedication took place in the Lecture Hall of the build- 
ing, where Mr. Peabody delivered the address now pub- 
lished. 

On Friday he received the children of the Public Schools, 
(estimated, twenty thousand in number,) as they passed in 
procession before him on the steps of the Institute, when 
he made them the address also included in this volume. 

On Saturday, accompanied by the Mayor and City 
Council, he received the citizens generally in the Hall of 
the New Assembly Rooms. 

He attended Dr. Backus' Church on Sunday, and left 
the City to go to Ohio on Monday morning. 

It is pleasant to record the fact that during Mr. Pea- 
body's stay in the City, not the most trifling occurrence 
happened to cause disappointment or to prevent a full par- 
ticipation and enjoyment to all in the interesting occasion 
of which these papers are intended to preserve a history. 
The whole community seemed to be moved by a controlling 
desire to manifest their hearty welcome and respect, as well 
as their grateful appreciation to the City's Benefactor. 

CHARLES J. M. EATON, 
GEORGE W. DOBBIN, 
ENOCH PRATT, 
WM. McKIM, 
J. MASON CAMPBELL, 

Execu tive Com m ittee. 



PRAYER. 



Rev. Dr. Backus, of the First Presbyterian Church, 
offered the following Prayer: 

Almighty and most merciful Jehovah, we adore Thee as 
God over all, blessed forever. Thou upholdest and guidest 
all things by the word of Thy power. Thine, Lord, is the 
greatness and the glory and the majesty. With reverence 
we bow before Thee. 

Assembled this morning to inaugurate this Institute, 
which has been reared by benevolent hands, for the promo- 
tion of science and art, and the improvement and enjoyment 
of this community, we desire humbly to invoke Thy gra- 
cious presence, guidance and benediction. In all our under- 
takings we would acknowledge that our dependence is upon 
the Lord, who made heaven and earth. "Except the Lord 
build the house, they labor in vain that build it." Do Thou, 
therefore, prosper this work of our hands. 

We thank Thee, that Thou hast put it into the mind and 
heart of Thy servant, whom Thou hast so highly blessed 
and prospered, to employ so large a portion of the talents 
entrusted to him, in securing the well-being and happiness 
of this community; that, allured from grosser pleasures and 
inferior pursuits, they may seek that intellectual and moral 
improvement, which may tend to their true elevation, 
refinement, usefulness and pleasure — binding them together 
in social harmony and unity, making this city a centre of 
increasing light and purity, and exerting a happy influence 
throughout the land. 
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May he be spared to see the ripe fruits of his noble and 
generous benefactions, experience the satisfaction of having 
been in Thy hands the instrument of lasting good to his 
race, and receive not only the gratitude of those who shall 
enjoy the benefits of this Institute through coining ages, 
but also be replenished with the richest blessings of Thy 
providence and grace, so that his declining years may be 
full of peace and hope and joy. And when he has accom- 
plished his work on earth, may he be gathered to his 
fathers, full of honors, enjoying the respect of mankind, 
peace of conscience, and an abundant entrance into the 
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And may 
numbers rise up, not only to call him blessed, but also to 
imitate his example. 

Give wisdom to those to whose management this Institute 
has been entrusted — preside over all their deliberations and 
measures — may harmony ever prevail in their councils — let 
no root of bitterness spring up to trouble and distract 
them — let nothing mar or interrupt the usefulness of the 
trust committed to them — but may it prove a fountain of 
light, purity and blessedness in this city, and fulfil the 
highest wishes of its benevolent founder — and we will give 
all the praise to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy 
Ghost. Amen. 



Got. Swamps Address. 



Mr. Peabody: — 

I am here to-day , by the invitation of the Trustees of the 
Peabody Institute, with whatever of official significance 
my presence may be expected to convey, to extend to you a 
cordial welcome to the State of Maryland. We receive you, 
sir, not as a stranger. Your early life was commenced 
here in this City, partly in our State. The sympathies and 
associations, contracted here, have followed you throughout 
life. In the financial crisis of 1837, which spread over this 
whole Union, affecting more or less almost every State 
within our limits, when we required countenance and sup- 
port abroad, you, sir, stood the fast friend of the State of 
Maryland [applause], and by your efforts, by the weight of 
your great, name, pointed us to that career of prosperity 
and success in the management of our financial affairs 
which has placed us to-day, I will not say in advance, but, 
by the side of the most prosperous of our sister States. 
For this, Mr. Peabody, the State of Maryland owes you 
a debt of gratitude. [Applause.] And I consider myself 
fortunate that this opportunity is offered me, in the pres- 
ence of the vast audience here assembled, to make this 
acknowledgment, due to the important services rendered to 
our State. [Applause.] The occasion which brings you 
here to-day has been appointed by the Trustees of this Insti- 
tution, at the earliest convenient period after your return to 
the country. We are here, sir, to make a report of what, 
has been accomplished in the management of that great 
endowment which you have conferred upon the people of 



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this City, and indirectly, upon the whole State. And we 
are here, to announce to you that this great Institution 
is now ready to enter upon that work of practical 
development in the great cause of human advancement 
which it was your purpose to accomplish in the letter of 
instructions which you placed in the hands of the Trustees 
entrusted with this charge. It is not my purpose, Mr. 
Peabody, to go into a history of what has been accomplished 
or what is proposed to be done in the future by those to 
whom you have confided this trust. That task will be per- 
formed by another. I cannot, however, forego the pleasure 
with which I would ask to be permitted to refer to one pas- 
sage in that letter of instructions to which I have alluded, 
as singularly appropriate at this particular time. "I must 
not omit," you say in that letter to the Trustees, "to impress 
upon jou. a suggestion for the government of the Institute, 
which I deem to be of the highest moment, and which I 
desire shall be ever present with the Board of Trustees. 
My earnest wish to promote at all times a spirit of harmony 
and good will in society, my aversion to intolerance, bigotry 
and party rancor, and my enduring respect and love for the 
happy institutions of our prosperous Republic, impel me to 
express the wish that the Institute I have proposed to you 
shall always be strictly guarded against the possibility of 
being made the theatre for the dissemination or discussion 
of sectarian theology or party politics. ' [Great applause.] 
That it shall never manifest in any manner whatever a sup- 
port to political dissensions and to visionary theories, and 
the infidelity of a pretended philosophy, which may be aimed 
at the subversion of the approved morals of society; that it 
shall never lend its aid or influence to the propagation of 
opinions tending to create or encourage sectional jealousies 
in our happy country, [applause,] all which may tend to 
the alienation of the people of one State or section from 
those of another. But that it shall be so conducted through- 
out its whole career as to teach political and religious 
charity, toleration and benevolence, and prove this to be in 
all contingencies and conditions the true friend of our esti- 
mable Union, of the salutary institutions of free govern- 



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ment, and of liberty regulated by law. I enjoin these 
precepts upon the Board of Trustees and the exercise forever 
of their invincible observance and enforcement in the admin- 
istration of the duties I have confided to them." I am here, 
sir, to say to you that these sentiments meet a response 
from the people of the State of Maryland, and we give them 
our cordial endorsement. In discharging the duty which 
has been assigned to me by the Trustees, a pleasing duty, — I 
cannot forego the pleasure I feel on this occasion in assuring 
you of ray profound personal respect for your character. 
Your career has been one of uninterrupted prosperity. In 
all the business of life you have adorned by your honesty 
and straightforwardness every position in which you have 
been placed. And no man, Mr. Peabody, whether living 
or dead — in this country, or in any country — has attracted a 
larger share of the public attention by works of disinterested 
charity and benevolence. [Applause.] You have not lived 
for yourself alone. Two hemispheres attest your princely 
liberality. Ketiring to your native country, after so many 
years' absence, crowned with all the honors that human 
applause can bestow upon a private citizen, not excepting 
the applause of royalty itself. I feel proud, standing within 
the walls of this noble Institution, the work of your own 
hands, for which we are indebted to your unaided liberality, 
to say, sir, that I speak hereto-day, not only the sentiments 
of the vast crowd before me, but of the whole State of 
Maryland, when I assure you, that in honoring George 
Peabody, we honor ourselves. [Applause.] 



Mr Peabodys Response. 



Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 

I thank you most kindly for the honor which the Gover- 
nor of Maryland has done roe in the sentiment which he 
has expressed; and I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for 
the enthusiasm which you have been so kind as to manifest 
at the mention of my name. [Enthusiastic applause.] The 
Governor of Maryland has referred to the assistance which 
he gives me the credit of performing thirty years ago or 
more, for the resuscitation, in some measure, of the credit 
of the State of Maryland. The same compliment was 
yesterday paid me by the Mayor and Councils in reference 
to the same subject. I will therefore only say to you that 
what I did at that time, any pledge that I ever made at 
that time, has been fully sustained by the State of Maryland 
throughout the duration of that time. 

It is upwards of half a century since I came from George- 
town, in the District of Columbia, where I had for some 
time been in business, to reside in this city. I was then 
but twenty years of age, and commenced business in com- 
pany with Mr. Elisha Riggs, of Georgetown, at 215^ 
Market Street, then called "Old Congress Hall," and there 
it was that I gained the first $5,000 of the fortune with 
which Providence has crowned my exertions. From that 
period for twenty years of my life, though a New England 
man, and though strong prejudices existed even at that 
time between the Northern and Southern States, I never 
experienced from the citizens of Baltimore anything but 
kindness, hospitality aud confidence. 



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It would, then, be strange indeed if I were not deeply 
attached to Baltimore; and from the time of which I have 
spoken to the present moment I have ever cherished the 
warmest and most grateful feelings toward the inhabitants 
of this beautiful city, where I entered upon a business 
career which has been so prosperous. 

And although I have lived abroad for more than thirty 
years, under the Government of a Queen, who is beloved, 
not only in her own realms, but throughout all civilized 
countries, and who has bestowed upon me very high honor, 
yet my appreciation (warm though it is) of kindness and 
honors bestowed on me in England has never effaced the 
grateful remembrance and warm interest which I must ever 
connect with the home of my early business and the scene 
of my youthful exertions. 

I am, therefore, glad to meet you here — to stand again 
where I can look upon the scenes which recall so many 
memories of my younger days — and still more glad to 
receive from you this warm greeting, the token that my 
course of life has met with your approbation. 

But yet I come to you now, in some degree, with a sad- 
dened heart, at finding that nearly all my early acquaint- 
ances in Baltimore have left the stage of life, and / am left 
so nearly alone among them all, and, in lately looking over 
a list of the principal importing merchauts of Baltimore 
(headed by Alexander Brown & Son and George and John 
Hoffman,) attached to a circular addressed to our shipping 
merchants in Europe, dated fifty -one years ago, and con- 
taining ninety-three firms, composed of one hundred and 
forty-five names, I can now trace out as living but seven per- 
sons, of whom I am one. And having but once before 
visited my native land in thirty years, I feel now as if address- 
ing a community to whom I am personally almost wholly 
unknown, and as if I were standing here a relic of past 
years, and addressing a generation to which I do not myself 
belong. 

But my interest both in the present and in future genera- 
tions is, I trust, not less than in that which has passed or 
is passing away; the fathers of many of you who hear my 



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voice were among my intimate friends, and thus situated, I 
hope I may not be presuming in what I shall have to say. 

Since my last visit, nearly ten years ago, many and great 
changes have taken place. I then had the pleasure of 
expressing my regard for this city, and my desire for the 
good of its future citizens by the establishment of the Insti- 
tution in which I am now addressing you. I could then 
hardly expect to live to address you here at this time, but 
God has been pleased to prolong my years beyond the three 
score and ten allotted to man, and to enable me to carry 
out at tli is time the views I then entertained with regard to 
the operations and benefits of this Institution. 

With the details of the scheme and organization of the 
Institute I do not propose to interfere. I am fully confident 
that I leave them in the hands of those who are devoted 
earnestly, and even enthusiastically, to devising and carry- 
ing out such plans as will, for all coming time, work for 
the highest good and culture of those for whom its benefits 
were intended. But I am sure you will pardon me, my 
fellow-citizens, if on one point to which Governor Swann 
has eloquently alluded — the spirit of harmony in which all 
should be carried out — I speak a few words, coming as they 
do from the very depths of my heart, and appealing to you, 
you the people of Baltimore, with whom rests the success or 
failure of this Institute. For, as years advance and what 
were forebodings for the future have become merged in the 
past, the earnest desire for unity and brotherly feelings 
w r hich I cherished, and expressed ten years ago, in the terms 
just referred to by the Governor of Maryland, has become 
deeper and more intense. It is my hope and prayer that 
this Institute may not only have and fulfil a mission in the 
fields of science, of art and of knowledge, but also one to 
the hearts of men, teaching always lessons of peace and 
good-will, and especially that now it may in some humble 
degree be instrumental in healing the wounds of our beloved 
and common country, and establishing again a happy and 
harmonious Union — the only Union that can be preserved 
for coming ages, and the only one that is ivorth preserving. 
And here I may well refer to a subject which, though of a 



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personal nature, has its bearings on what I have said. I 
have been told several times that I have been accused of 
want of devotion to the Union, and I take this occasion to 
place myself right, for I have not a word of apology, not a 
word of retraction to utter. 

Fellow-citizens, the Union of the States of America was 
one of the earliest objects of my childhood's reverence. For 
the independence of our country my father bore arms in 
some of the darkest days of the Revolution, and from him 
and from his example I learned to love and honor that Union. • 
Later in life I learned more fully its inestimable worth, 
perhaps more fully than most have done, for born and edu- 
cated at the North, then living nearly twenty years at the 
South, and thus learning in the best school the character 
and life of her people, finally in the course of a long resi- 
dence abroad, being thrown in intimate contact with indi- 
viduals of every section of our glorious land, I came, as do 
most Americans who live long in foreign lands, to love our 
country as a whole, to know and take pride in all her sons 
as equally countrymen — to know no North, no South, no 
East, no West. — And so I wish publicly to avow that during 
the terrible contest through which the nation has passed, 
my sympathies were still and always will be with the Union, 
that my uniform course tended to assist but never to injure, 
the credit of the Government of the Union, and at the close 
of the war three-fourths of all the property I possessed had 
been invested in United States Government and State secu- 
rities, and remain so at this time. 

But none the less could I fail to feel charity for the South; 
to remember that political opinion is for more a matter of 
birth and education than of calm and unbiassed reason and 
sober thought. Even you and I, my friends, had we been 
born at the South, born to the feelings, beliefs, and perhaps 
prejudices of Southern men, might have taken the same 
course which was adopted by the South, and have cast in our 
lot with those who fought, as all must admit, so bravely for 
what they believed to be their rights- Never, therefore, 
during the war or since, have I permitted the contest, or 
any passions engendered by it, to interfere with the social 
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relations and warm friendships which I had formed for a 
very large number of the people of the South. I blamed, 
and shall always blame, the instigators of the strife and 
sowers of dissension, both at the North and at the South. 
I believed, and do still believe, that bloodshed might have 
been avoided by mutual conciliation. But after the great 
struggle had actually commenced I could see no hope for 
the glorious future of America, save in the success of the 
armies of the Union ; and in reviewing my whole course, 
there is nothing which I could change if I would, nor which 
1 would change if I could. And now, after the lapse of 
these eventful years, I am more deeply, more earnestly, 
more painfully convinced than ever, of our need of mutual 
forbearance and conciliation, of Christian charity and for- 
giveness, of united effort to bind up the fresh and broken 
wounds of the nation. 

To you, therefore, citizens of Baltimore and of Maryland, 
I make my appeal, probably the last I shall ever make to 
you. May not this Institute be a common ground, where 
all may meet, burying former differences and animosities ; 
forgetting past separations and estrangements ; weaving the 
bands of new attachments to the City, to the State and to 
the Nation. May not Baltimore, her name already honored 
in history, as the birth-place of religious toleration in 
America, now crown her past fame by becoming the day- 
star of political tolerance and charity, and will not Mary- 
land, in place of a battle ground for opposing parties, 
become the field where milder counsels and calm delibera- 
tions may prevail ; where good men of all sections may meet 
to devise and execute the wisest plans for repairing the 
ravages of war, and for making the future of our country 
alike common, prosperous and glorious, from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, and from our Northern to our Southern 
boundary. 



Addeess of the Trustees. 



An address of The Trustees of The Peabody Institute 
was prepared by their President, Hon. John P. Kennedy, 
to be delivered at the Inauguration of the Institute which 
was expected to take place in the month of May, 1866. In 
accordance with the expressed wish of Mr. Peabody, the 
Inauguration was postponed until the 25th October, 1866. 
In the meantime events occurred to render it necessary to 
modify certain portions of Mr. Kennedy's original address. 
His absence in Europe prevented him from delivering it in 
person on the day last named, when it was read by George 
W. Dobbin, Esq., on behalf of The Trustees, modified as 
follows: 

That man is to be envied for a great good fortune who 
having acquired wealth, has also received from nature the 
gift of a generous ambition which persuades him to make 
his wealth the hand-maiden of an honorable fame. There 
are but few men, amongst those educated to any apprecia- 
tion of intellectual excellence, who do not sometimes dally 
with the thought of leaving some memorial behind them 
by which they may secure more or less of a kind memory 
after they are gone. It is the instinctive utterance of the 
nobleness of our nature that whispers, even to the humblest 
of us, the desire to be remembered when we are absent. We 
seldom ascend to the belfry of a village church that we 



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do not find initials carved on the wood, or names scrawled 
in pencil on the walls to solicit our notice to the fact that 
some casual visitor who had arrived there before us desired 
our approbation of his own exploit in having attained to such 
an elevation. Many work in the spirit of pure selfishness 
to set their insignificant egotisms before the eyes of pos- 
terity: but many work with an equally pure unselfishness 
to confer a benefaction, desirous that the deed alone shall 
live, and conscious of a pleasure in the thought that a good 
work shall survive to show a future generation that it had 
a benefactor in the past. Such men use the faculty God 
has given them for the improvement of the world, accord- 
ing to their means; — if they can do no more than plant a 
tree by the road side, or open a fountain for the thirsty 
wayfarer, or remove a stone from his path. These are the 
natural aspirations of our humanity towards a posthumous 
life: — the longing of the spirit to live in companionship 
with the generations that succeed the present. 

How full are our lives of good intentions ! How few of us 
have the nerve, the industry and the zeal to carry these 
intentions into good deeds ! We dream of things we might 
do, resolve to do them, halt before every shadow of obstruc- 
tion, and find, when our race is run, that procrastination 
has eaten out the heart of our enterprise. There are many 
men of generous disposition, of intelligent perception and 
estimate of the needs of the society to which they belong, 
of ample means and honest inclination to use them in some 
signal scheme of social advantage, who having lived 
through their whole compass of active life in daily post- 
ponements till to-morrow, take refuge, at last, against the 
reproaches of their conscience, in a testamentary injunction 
to their heirs to do what they have so long neglected. 
There are others, whom a kind Providence sometimes sends 
to bless our race — both as -an aid and an example to sup- 
port and encourage our struggle towards a more perfect 
life, — who are so wise to discern the necessities of humanity, 
so gifted with the means to supply them, and, at the same 
time, so happily endowed with a sense of the luxury of 
indulging in acts of well doing, that they seem to be 



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favored with a special mission to scatter blessings in tlie 
pathway of their own generation, and to sow the seeds of a 
perpetual harvest of good fruits for the generations to come. 

We are assembled to-day to dedicate to the public use the 
work of a man who holds, by the universal verdict of his 
country, a preeminent position in that rare and happy com- 
pany: a man who was not content to die and leave behind 
him an inventory of frustrated intentions, nor to allow his 
heirs to deprive him of the first enjoyment of the pleasure 
of that good-giving and good-doing which had become the 
habit and the necessity of his nature. 

We account it to be our good fortune to-day, that by an 
auspicious coincidence, the ceremonies of this inauguration 
are to be illustrated and hereafter to be rendered more 
memorable, by the actual presence and participation of our 
patron and friend. 

In the month of February, 1857, Mr. Peabody announced 
to this community, through a letter, bearing date on the 
12th of that month, addressed to twenty-five of his friends, 
whom he desired to act as trustees, the plan of an Institute 
which it was his wish to establish in this City, in pur- 
suance, as he said, of a purpose he had long entertained, 
and which, he hoped, might "become useful towards the 
improvement of the moral and intellectual culture of the 
inhabitants of Baltimore and collaterally to those of the 
State; and also towards the enlargement and diffusion of a 
taste for the Fine Arts." In another part of the same let- 
ter, he gives utterance to an aspiration, which briefly, but 
significantly, expresses the benevolent scope of his project, 
and his confidence in its success, — that it might be found, 
"both in the influence of its example, and in the direct 
administration of its purpose, a long, fruitful and prosper- 
ous benefaction to the good people of Baltimore." 

It is more than nine years since that generous message 
was delivered at our doors; and it is only now that the 
enterprise, which it so hopefully described, has come to this 
the first stage of its development for public presentation. 
The project has made but slow progress through the greater 



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part of that nine years; it has halted in weary delay and 
lingered in a sad silence. In that interval mournful 
changes have come, both in the internal construction of 
the Board of Trustees, and in the outward public conditions 
which were necessary to be regarded in the prosecution of 
the labor confided to them. Six of the original members 
of the Board have disappeared in obedience to that irrever- 
sible command which will come, in due time, to each and 
all who are left to do the work of to-day. The vacant 
chairs have been filled, but, amongst the survivors, sepa- 
rations, scarcely less solemn than those made by death, 
have prevented free and cordial counsel; and, indeed, our 
whole community during more than half of this interval, 
has lived in such feverish contests of opposing tempers, 
opinions and interests, as to render hopeless the benign 
works of peaceful enterprise. 

The long agony, we trust, is over, and a better day has 
come at last. The strife of five years steeped in the carnage 
and desolation of a civil war of such bitterness as history 
never before recorded — helium plusquam civile — has come to 
an end, and the frightened propriety of national and social 
life is creeping back to the old homesteads, and all good 
men and women are praying, once more, for union and har- 
mony. Let us cheer ourselves with the hope that this new- 
peace is a true herald of good to come, and that it brings its 
heavenly gift of healing on its wings. 

It is in this first breathing space after the dreadful shock 
of arms, that we have invited our fellow-citizens to partake 
in the celebration of the opening of the Institute, and to 
add a new pleasure to the happy change in our public 
affairs, by the dedication of this house to an exposition of 
the beneficence of an establishment whose teachings we may 
hope, shall forever be devoted to the promotion of the hap- 
piness and grandeur of our country. 

The annals of Baltimore, ever since Baltimore could boast 
the honors of a City, exhibit no act of private munificence, 
no act of associated philanthropy, nor, perhaps even of 
public official benefaction, which, in the scope of its design 
of usefulness to the community, or in the prodigal gene- 



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rosity of the means contributed to its accomplishment, may- 
claim the admiration and gratitude of our citizens by a 
merit so clear and unquestionable as The Institute which 
George Peabody this day offers to the City. An endow- 
ment, amounting to a million of dollars, has been appro- 
priated to the establishment and completion of a broad and 
permanent structure of public education which when brought 
to its full development, is destined to become the well-spring 
of perennial and profuse bounty to many generations of the 
people of Baltimore and Maryland. 

The stately edifice in which we are now assembled is but 
the first flower of this noble design. A great part of the 
work is not yet even begun. When the whole is finished, 
The Institute will stand in this apex of the City, the fairest 
of the buildings that adorn its triple hills. Here, in the 
centre of the most beautiful of City landscapes, its majestic 
figure, reposing at the foot of the matchless column which 
symbolizes the immortality of the Father of Our Union, it 
will be the second object to challenge the admiration of the 
passing stranger; whilst it will ever attract the veneration 
and gratitude of our own people and the thousands of their 
descendants, who, through the lapse of years, shall be privi- 
leged to frequent its halls and draw from its wells of living 
water exhaustless draughts of wisdom and virtue. Still 
more distinctly will it stand a cherished monument to per- 
petuate in the affection of our posterity the enviable memory 
of a patriot who served his country with imperial munifi- 
cence. Let us add, it will stand for ages as the memorial 
of a good man whom Providence had blessed with a pros- 
perity almost as lavish as his virtue; with a renown almost 
as rare as his wise appreciation of the true use of riches. 

The idea, partially developed in the growth of The Insti- 
tute up to its present stage, of a plan of popular instruction 
which should embrace every thing most useful in science 
and most attractive in art, we have already intimated, had 
been, for some time, before the public announcement of it, 
a favorite conception of its author. We shall have occasion 
presently to notice the various objects contemplated in this 
organization and to indicate the agencies by which they 



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are to be brought into active service for the benefit of the 
public. We may, in a general reference to the scope of the 
whole scheme, say that it has an aim and magnitude no 
less generous than to establish, within the pale of a per- 
petual corporate authority, an organization of material 
power and intellectual resource adapted and directed to the 
indoctrination of the community — and by that word, we 
mean not the community of this City and State only, but of 
our country — in the learning, morals, arts, taste, accom- 
plishment and skill that lift up nations to the height of the 
most virtuous and elegant as well as the most powerful 
civilization. 

We should perhaps best designate this scheme according 
to its true character, if we call it a design to establish a 
University. adapted to the conditions indispensable to the 
cultivation of a taste for science and letters in the adult 
population of a large city. It will not conform to the com- 
mon conception of a University, which is supposed to con- 
sist of an aggregate of colleges, professorships and scholars 
systematically employed in a regular career of teaching and 
study according to a prescribed usage and formula: but it 
may claim the character of an organized corporation whose 
means are to be employed in affording opportunities for the 
acquisition of all kinds of knowledge attainable by the 
teachings of books, the expositions of learned men and the 
study of artistic design. 

We propose to begin where the ordinary college known to 
our traditional systems of education terminates its instruc- 
tion. It is not our purpose, except under" some favorable 
conditions which we shall hereafter notice, to attempt a 
regular routine of study through which to conduct our 
classes in an annual circuit. All that belongs to prelimi- 
nary or elemental education, we suppose, for the most part, 
to be done before our student comes to us; or, if not done, 
that it has been pretermitted, either for want of opportuity 
or means, or inclination, and that he comes to our Institute 
to be instructed in whatever he has the leisure to acquire, 
or the ambition to pursue, and which we are able and have 
appointed to teach. 



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The world of science, or, — to use Mr. Carlyle's more 
homely and more comprehensive phrase, — the world of 
tilings 'knowable' has grown very wide and infinitely 
various in this Nineteenth Century. We have, for some 
time past, been obliged to relinquish the conceit of attain- 
ing to that universal knowledge, which so much excited the 
imagination and the industry of our ancestors. 

We are driven to the study of Summaries, Reviews and 
Encyclopedias for our general information, and of special 
Sciences or select Literature for our distinctive personal 
pursuits. The library of any one language in Christendom 
is more than a life-time labor can explore, and the daily 
profusion of the press in productions of the highest genius 
and most valuable knowledge throws the most ambitious 
book-worm into blank despair when he attempts to keep 
himself abreast with the march of intellect, as marked out 
by the army of his contemporaries. We are, therefore, 
driven to choose for ourselves special studies, and to pursue 
them with what means are at hand and within our reach. 
If we can read a good book which we are sure will teach us 
the best that is known on its subject; if we can hear a good 
course of lectures from an authentic teacher who will place 
us au courant with the accepted and approved notions and 
facts of the time, we do as much as we can hope to do, and 
we satisfy ourselves with the thought that we are doing our 
duty, and are elevating the general estimate of education in 
the society to which we belong. 

Now, it is to furnish these opportunities for various study 
and to familiarize science, letters and art to the perception 
of the community — to give a good chance to all who desire 
to know more and better things than they knew before, and 
to excite and feed a love of knowledge and study in the 
heart of the country, by supplying the means of intellectual 
culture, that our University, modelled on this new idea of 
miscellaneous supply adapted to the various tastes and pur- 
suits of the people, is established. 

The general character or outline of our plan has been 
given to the world in Mr. Peabody's letter of the 12th of 
February, 1857, to which we have referred. Without 
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repeating what is described in that letter as the instructions 
to the Trustees, we shall, as briefly as we can, endeavor to 
explain the purpose contemplated by the organization which 
is there directed to be made of The Institute. 

The instruction supplied by The Institute is designed to 
be communicated through four departments of administra- 
tion: 

A Library; 
A School of Lectures; 
An Academy of Music; 
A Gallery of Art. 

The prominent and fundamental characteristic of this 
organization is its adaptation to the diffusion of knowledge 
through the voluntary application of such portions of the 
community as may be inclined to seek it. It is the aim of 
the founder of The Institute to put the volunteer student in 
possession of every facility to aid his studies in whatever 
department of letters or science his inclination or his inter- 
est may lead him to choose. These advantages, it is also 
the purpose of the founder, to confer upon the student, in 
great part, without charge or expense, or, at most, at a rate 
of expense no higher than may be necessary to prevent 
improper intrusion and secure good order and decorum. In 
the general review of these divisions of The Institute, we are 
first brought to notice 

THE LIBRARY. 

This constitutes the most prominent object in the con- 
struction of The Institute, exhibiting to the eye, even at 
the present time, in its early stage of accumulation, a very 
attractive collection of valuable works. The selection of 
these volumes, now amounting to some fifteen thousand, has 
been diligently pursued by the Board of Trustees during the 
last five years, through all the difficulties and obstructions 
thrown in their way by the unhappy condition of the public 
affairs, by the very unfavorable rates of foreign exchange, 
and by the burdensome restrictions of a high system of 



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domestic taxation. The prices of books, from these causes 
have been so much increased, that it became a matter of 
obvious necessity and discretion to make our purchases as 
small as the object we had in view would allow. What we 
have achieved, therefore, in this enterprise, may, perhaps, 
be entitled to the commendation of a prudent industry, and 
should at least save the Board from some of that censure 
which an impatient public have occasionally indulged. 

The scope of the collection to which the Board is now 
directing its attention covers a catalogue of fifty thousand 
volumes, which will complete what may be described as the 
first section or instalment of the Library. This section is 
intended to exhibit an aggregate of science and literature 
as these are illustrated by the most eminent and authentic 
writers whose works are best known and most generally 
accepted at the present time. It is, in a restricted sense, 
designed to be complete in itself. We mean by this, that 
this section will embrace, as far as it is capable of doing so, 
the entire circle of science, art and letters, as known to the 
philosophy and literature of this age, — comprehending in 
its compass what is understood as the standard works on all 
subjects, and those productions in the field of general litera- 
ture which have come, by the suffrage of scholars, to be dis- 
tinguished as elassics. 

When this division is finished upon the plan we have 
described, a second section will be undertaken and a digested 
catalogue be prepared as a guide to the purchase. 

This section will be an amplification of the first, bringing 
in many valuable works in the same departments of science 
and literature, supplementing that first collection by Trea- 
ties, Histories and Philosophies gathered from the stores of 
other nations, and enriching our collections by the learning 
and labor of past ages, thus giving the materials for a sur- 
vey of the growth and progress of learning in its career 
towards it present development. 

A third section will be specially directed to the rare and 
curious products of scholarship, and to the miscellaneous 
treasures which opportunity, chance and the luxury of our 



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ever teeming and busy press, throw in the way of The 
Institute. 

You will perceive from this sketch of the plan of the 
Library, that many years must elapse before it may be 
expected to reach the dimensions and character we have 
assigned to it. A yearly appropriation will be indispen- 
sable, not only to make up the complement of the present 
requisitions which our catalogue demands, but also to fur- 
nish, what will always be more in request, and perhaps more 
intrinsically useful, the constantly increasing volume of 
contemporary literature and science. 

The Library is the natural appurtenance to the Lecture 
Room, and from which it will derive its most assiduous 
students. Our second department, therefore, presents to 
us a very prominent organization of a system of instruc- 
tion by 

THE SCHOOL OF LECTURES. 

From the earliest times in the annals of public education 
down to the present day, teaching by Lectures has been 
regarded as the most attractive and efficient means of 
impressing upon the mind of the student the facts and prin- 
ciples of almost every kind of knowledge. I"h the scheme 
of The Institute we give it the place of our first and most 
active agency, and we regard our arrangement and pro- 
vision for various courses of periodical lectures as the basis 
of the most useful and popular service of The Institute. 

Through the orderly and permanent ministration of this 
department every science may be taught, not only to the 
extent of its adaptation to the popular comprehension, but 
also, to such zealous students as may seek it, even up to its 
most recondite conditions. In this theatre, if the hopes of 
the founder be realized, there will be supplies, at various 
seasons as opportunity may offer, masterly expositions of all 
the chief subjects of human knowledge which constitutes the 
intellectual wealth of our country. 

It will be our aim, in the first place, to establish certain 
select courses of lectures on the most useful sciences and 



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arts, which shall be prosecuted through a defined series 
extending over one or more seasons, and which shall be 
adapted, as nearly as the disposition of our students may 
enable us to do so, to a prescribed circle of studies, upon 
the accomplishment of which we may be able to confer a 
diploma. 

The lectures of this class will, we hope, be specially de- 
voted to the education of the more ambitious and studious 
of our people, and particularly of those arriving on the verge 
of manhood, who desire to excel in that kind of knowledge 
which may be turned to good account not only for the stu- 
dent, but also for the service of society. The principal 
topics of these lectures would be Geometry and Mathe- 
matics, Architecture and Design, Chemistry, Engineering, 
Technology and Mechanics, and other sciences of the same 
practical character. 

In this course there would be little of what is generally 
understood to be popular lecturing. It would be a course, 
rather, of grave study, which we hope would rouse the 
emulation of young men who desire to qualify themselves 
for the important and profitable duties that belong to the 
practice of what may be called the scientific professions of 
civil life. It would be pleasant to see this course of lec- 
tures established as a fundamental purpose of The Institute, 
and so commended to the community by its useful results 
as to ensure a regular and persistent attendance on one or 
two nights of every week, through the appointed season of 
each year, of a large class who would enter the course with 
a resolution to pursue their studies to the end, and to earn 
the diploma of The Institute. 

Apart from this regular circle or series of lectures to be 
repeated every year, we propose to organize a continuous 
exhibition of lectures of another kind, which, to the general 
public and especially to our older population and more 
educated classes, will be much more interesting, and to 
them perhaps more instructive. 

In this department of the plan, we propose to obtain from 
the very highest sources which our means and the oppor- 
tunity of the time may enable us to command , a continuous 



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supply of lectures which shall range over the whole field of 
literature and science, and which shall present to the fre- 
quenters of this hall every attraction that may be found in 
the discourse of eminent teachers who have made their 
several themes a special study, and who can bring to their 
exposition of them the advantages of careful and skilful 
preparation. These lectures will be given in courses of 
various extent: Some of ten or twelve — some of half that 
number — many, perhaps, where the subject is of limited 
scope, may be given in a single lecture. 

In this field our lectures will, by turns, bring us through 
the circuit of the physical sciences — astronomy, geology, 
natural history, the varieties and conditions of animal life; 
in short, all the divisions of that material world whose 
forms and qualities are open to the scrutiny of human 
observation. Here will be taught the history of our race, 
the nature and destiny of man, the theories of his moral 
sentiment, his obligations and duties, the jurisprudence of 
nations, forms of government. We should fatigue your 
attention by the attempt to give even an outline of the 
diversity of topics which may be illustrated here. It is only 
necessary to say that the lecture is a means of instruction as 
boundless in its scope as human speech, and is certainly the 
most popular of all the agencies employed in imparting 
knowledge. 

The several lectures of every season will be arranged 
some months in advance of their delivery, and the lecturers 
will, where that is practicable, be engaged, and the period 
of their engagement be designated, sufficiently long before 
the opening of the season to allow an extensive notice of the 
arrangement to be communicated to the public, in order 
that those who desire to attend may be apprised in time to 
prepare for it. 

THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 

The third department of The Institute is The Academy of 
Music. This exists as yet only in expectancy. The building 
necessary to this department is not begun. 



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It was a favorite thought in the conception of our good 
friend, Mr. Peabody, — this of bringing to the aid of the 
great purpose of his Institute the bland and refining influ- 
ences of that art which has been called the huraanizer of the 
possessor of all other arts. Here music, has for the first time 
in our country been brought into a system of education, as 
a co-ordinate element to hold an equal rank with the other 
teachings of the University. We believe, in no other insti- 
tution of note amongst us has music been assigned a seat in 
such alliance with philosophy. It is reviving the thought 
and practice of classic Greece, and carries us back to the 
Republic of Plato and the Academy of Athens. Let us hope 
and pray that the benign inspiration of our Founder may 
fill the heart of this community, and make The Academy of 
Music all that he expects. 

This Academy is as yet, of course, but scantily developed 
in our plan. So far as the letter of Mr. Peabody discloses 
the plan — it is intended to be composed of a special mem- 
bership, which will form something of a separate corporate 
organization within that of The Institute This will con- 
sist of a large aggregate of subscribers enlisted from the 
musical talent of our City, and all others of both sexes, 
who take an interest in the cultivation of music. They 
will be supplied by The Institute with an appropriately 
furnished saloon, which will be the appendage to a concert 
room, adapted to public exhibition; and in this saloon will 
be collected a Library of Music, with musical instruments, 
and all the adjuncts necessary to the useful intercourse and 
professional occupation of the members. 

The Concert Hall, which we hope will be of the most 
ample and approved construction, should be suppled with 
all the proper accompaniments for the exhibition of the 
highest art in music. It will be a prime object in the 
scheme of this Academy to make it the means of impressing 
upon the community iu Baltimore the value of introducing 
into the Public Schools a system of instruction in music 
through all its most scientific grades, as a branch of the 
education conferred upon their pupils, in order that the 
latent talent of our population may be brought out and cul- 



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tivated as a resource of personal advancement to its pos- 
sessors, and of public benefit to the City. How these ends 
shall be best accomplished will be the subject of the pecu- 
liar study and design of the Academy after it is organized. 
At present we can only speak conjecturally of the extent to 
which this department may be usefully developed. 

THE GALLERY OF ART. 

The fourth and last of the departments is a Gallery of 
Art. This, like the Academy of music, is yet unprovided 
for. It will require extensive room in the building, and 
an effective organization, which must be obtained, in 
great part, from those who may be connected with its 
operations. 

The general purpose of this Gallery is to promote the 
study of Painting and Sculpture and of their kindred Arts 
of Design, and to train the public taste to a true apprecia- 
tion of the value of that artistic skill which has won the 
admiration of mankind from the earliest ages of civiliza- 
tion, and the full recognition of which has come to be one 
of the most authentic tests of the refinement of nations in 
our own day. 

We indulge the hope that it will not be long before our 
City, through the agency of this department of The Insti- 
tute, shall become the resort of the most distinguished 
artists of our country, who will here be furnished with 
every aid towards the prosecution of their several studies, 
that their most ambitious votary could desire. That we 
shall be able to delight and instruct our community by 
public exhibitions of painting and sculpture from the hands 
of our own gifted artists, whose numbers already have 
given them an importance as an influential class in our 
society, and whose merits have brought them a fame that 
assigns them an honorable place beside the most distin- 
guished of their fraternity in Europe. 

In this Gallery will be placed the best specimens of art 
attainable from the collections of the works of the older 
masters, and will, as far as the means and the opportunities 



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of the Board of Trustees may permit, be enriched with the 
most admired works of the artists of the present day, and 
espcially of those of our own land. 

The formation of such a gallery as we have described, 
you will perceive, is necessarily the work of time. It can 
only grow by slow accretion. But every year, we may 
hope, will add to its treasures; and, being once securely 
established on a permanent foundation, it will, doubtless, 
become the depository of occasional private contributions, 
conferred by bequest or given by the friends of art who may 
be animated by something of the spirit that makes the 
founder of The Institute the subject of the grateful affection 
of his country. 

We have given you in this review an outline of The Insti- 
tute as designed by its author. It is sufficient to show you 
how comprehensive is the scheme, how various will be its 
purposes when it is completed and brought into full activity, 
and how useful, how bountiful in good results, how influ- 
ential in forming the character of our community it may 
become if diligently, faithfully and intelligently adminis- 
tered. You will note that we have designated it as a 
University. You will perceive in the description we have 
given you, such ample breadth and variety of faculty in the 
scheme, as to convince you that it only depends upon the 
fidelity of its management to make it the most extensive 
and probably the most eminent theatre of popular instruc- 
tion in our country. 

We will not weary your patience with further comment 
on the plan of this great project of popular education which 
we are now assembled to inaugurate. We hope in the 
regular and diligent administration of its duties, from this 
time forth, to familiarize its designs to your perception and 
to commend it to your good opinion by the service it may 
render the community. It is sufficient for us to say to you 
at this time that the Trustees have resolved to proceed in 
their work as efficiently and as rapidly as the means at their 
command will enable them to do. 

The Library is under a regular progress of construction, 
and will, after the present large fund for its establishment 
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is exhausted, be continuously increased by a yearly appro- 
priation proportioned to the amounts required in the gene- 
ral service of The Institute. 

The Lectures will be expanded and varied under the same 
conditions of expenditures. 

The Academy of Music and the Gallery of Art will await, 
at least for their complete organization, the erection of the 
buildings necessary to their accommodation. 

It is proper before concluding to say a few words in refer- 
ence to the government of the Institute. 

The public have long been aware that the original plan 
of management, as set forth in Mr. Peabody's letter of the 
12th of February, ISSY, contemplated a mixed government, 
in which the duty of organization and supervision was given 
to the Board of Trustees, and that of administration was 
intended to be offered to the Maryland Historical Society, of 
which Mr. Peabody was a distinguished member. 

Upon the fact being communicated to the public, that 
this duty of administration would, when The Institute was 
organized and ready to assume its functions, be tendered to 
the Historical Society, that body with a most generous 
alacrity took an early occasion to express its hearty concur- 
ence in Mr. Peabody's wishes, and to assure him, in antici- 
pation of the offer, that, when the time should arrive for 
asking their co-operation, they would most cheerfully under- 
take the duties he assigned to them. 

Years, alter this elapsed. The building, as it now 
stands, was erected in the midst of that unhappy depres- 
sion brought upon us by the late civil war. It presents 
scarcely one-half of the structure required for the full accom- 
modation of The Institute. This whole house, it is found, 
will be engrossed by the Lecture Hall, and the apartments 
indispensable to the Library. Indeed, it is now quite 
apparent that the Library must ultimately be transferred to 
the new section of the Institute hereafter to be constructed, 
after which the present Library rooms may be appropriated 
to other departments. 

In this long delay that has befallen our enterprise — a 
delav which the circumstances we have alluded to made 



inevitable — we have, at least, found some experience, profit- 
ing by which, it occurred to the Trustees and to Mr. 
Peabody — and doubtles, it has occurred also to many mem- 
bers of the Society — that before the Institute was presented 
to the public, it would be a wise measure on the part of 
both bodies, to rescind, by common consent, the arrange- 
ment of the double administration — a measure which, at 
that stage in the progress of the Institute, was within the 
easy control of the parties interested. It was only neces- 
sary for the founder to express his wish on this subject to 
the Society, with a request that it would decline the duty 
to which he had invited it. 

This was done very recently in a kind letter addressed 
by Mr. Peabody to that body, asking, as a favor to him- 
self, that it would relinquish a purpose which it had 
only consented to perform from its respect and regard for 
him. 

The action of the Society on this letter was prompt, gra- 
cious and most honorable to its esteem for the author. The 
acceptance of the anticipated duties was recalled and the 
Historical Society lost no time to communicate its proceed- 
ings to the Board of Trustees. 

By this event the future management of the Institute in 
all its details has fallen into the hands of the Trustees, who 
are now alone responsible for the administration as well as 
the organization of the whole plan. To accomplish these 
ends, thanks to our generous benefactor, the means are 
ample. 

We have an endowment which commenced with the 
princely sum of three hundred thousand dollars, and was 
increased by successive gifts, from time to time, to half a 
million. 

Just at the moment when this glorious enterprise of 
benevolence is starting upon the grand career assigned to 
it, we are gladdened aud astounded by another act of this 
wonderful faculty of giving which crowns all that had gone 
before by doubling former benefactions, and swelling this 
vast endowment to a million of dollars. 



We have now said all that we think necessary on the 
present occasion, touching the nature and history of the 
enterprise of founding this Institute. We therefore hasten 
to a conclusion with a few remarks upon the spirit in which 
our friend and patron desires this work of his to be con- 
ducted. 

We cannot do this better than by presenting to you his 
letter of the 12th of February, 1857, and reading from it 
his own explanation of the ends he hoped to accomplish by 
this munificent gift. You will listen to words full of good 
thoughts and earnest patriotism — words which should be 
always read by the people of Baltimore not only with the 
affection due to their most honored benefactor, but also with 
the reverence due to a wise and virtuous teacher. 

In the concluding passage of the letter Mr. Peabody says 
to the Trustees: — 

"These, gentlemen, are the general instructions I have 
to impart to you, for your guidance in the laborious duties 
I have committed to your care. You will' perceive that my 
design is to establish an Institute which shall in some 
degree administer to the benefits of every portion of the 
City of Baltimore: which shall supply the means of pursu- 
ing the acquirement of knowledge and the study of art to 
every emulous student of either sex, who may be impelled 
by the laudable desire of improvement to seek it: which 
shall furnish incentives to the ambition of meritorious youth 
in the Public Schools, and in that useful School of Design, 
under the charge of the Mechanics Institute, by providing 
for those who excel, a reward which, I hope, will be found 
to be not only a token of honorary distinction, but also a 
timely contribution towards the means of the worthy candi- 
date who shall win it, for the commencement of a success- 
ful career in life: which shall afford opportunity to those 
whom fortune has blessed with leisure, to cultivate those 
kindly and liberalizing arts that embellish the character by 
improving the perception of the beautiful and the true, and 
which, by habituating the mind to the contemplation of the 
best works of genius, render it more friendly and 



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towards the success of deserving artists in their early 
endeavors after fame." 

To this he adds, as we have just heard, that impressive 
passage which warns us against the evils of intolerance, 
higotry and party rancor, and dedicates this his hounteous 
gift to the inculcation of political and religious charity, 
tolerence and beneficence. 

This is our friend's exposition of the great objects con- 
templated by him in the establishment of The Institute. 
We have his purpose and his advice from his own lips. 
These are put upon record to be preserved and handed 
down from the fathers of this day to their children as an 
inheritance which, wisely used, will grow to be the richest 
amongst the treasures of the City. This munificent endow- 
ment — we cannot err in saying — is one of those good 
thoughts which our religious insight, no less than the most 
venerable experiences of history, teaches us are often planted 
by a bountiful Providence, as blessed seed in a fertile mind, 
that they may germinate and grow up to maturity and bear 
fruit for the wholesome nurture of generations of mankind. 
To our comprehension of it — which is warmed and colored 
by our acquaintance with its author and our admiration 
of the perfect honesty and truth of his nature — the gran- 
deur of this gift is enhanced and even consecrated by the 
quiet, unostentatious and sincere benevolence of the giver, 
in whose composition generosity is so spontaneous and 
pervasive that the benefactor is almost unconscious of the 
affluence of his own bounty. 

There are great charities sometimes made by men in their 
lifetime, of such magnitude and so nobly inspired by love 
of country, as to become heroic and to live in the memory 
of mankind as landmarks in a country's history. These, 
even as single deeds, are very rare. George Peadody's 
name will stand conspicuous on national records for mani- 
fold acts of matchless beneficence which the people of two 
great empires will never forget. 

The Trustees have now performed the duty proposed in 
this address, by giving you the history of The Institute and 



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endeavoring to describe its organization, as well as to indi- 
cate what we hope will be its future career. 

The gratitude of the people of Baltimore who may here- 
after find instruction and pleasure in frequenting these 
halls, we trust will long have reason to commemorate the 
12th of February, in every coming year, as a festival anni- 
versary to render appropriate honors to the name of George 
Peabody. 

And now we present this Institute to the public use and 
enjoyment of the community of Baltimore, as an offering 
made to the City by the most generous, benevolent and 
earnest man of his age. 



ME. PEABODY'S ADDRESS 

TO THE 

CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



When I arrived in Baltimore on Wednesday, my dear 
young friends, I did not expect to meet you thus, but find- 
ing b} r a visit from your School Commissioners' Board that 
such was your desire, I concluded to meet you, even should 
it be necessary to postpone my departure from Baltimore 
beyond the time originally fixed. And I take to myself no 
credit for doing so, for I assure you that my desire to see 
you is as strong as yours can possibly be to see me, and 
never have I seen a more beautiful sight than this vast collec- 
tion of interesting children. The review of the finest army, 
with soldiers clothed in brilliant uniforms, and attended by 
the most delightful strains of martial music, could never 
give me one-half the pleasure that it does to look upon you 
here, with your bright and happy faces. For the sight of 
such an army as I have spoken of would be associated with 
thoughts of bloodshed and human suffering — of strife and 
violence; but I may well compare you, on the other hand, 
to an army of peace, and your mission on earth is not to 
destroy your fellow-creatures, but to be a blessing to them; 
and your path when you go out from these public schools 
is to be marked, not by ravages and desolation, but, I trust, 
by kindly words and actions, and by good will to all you 
meet. 

With such an assemblage as this, therefore, I am glad to 
have my name associated, as I see that it is, by the badges 
woru by many of you, and I shall feel it to be a very great 
honor if the medals thus bearing my name shall continue, 



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as I am informed they have heretofore done, to prove incen- 
tives to application, diligence and good conduct, and I shall 
ever take a sincere interest in those to whom they are 
awarded. 

There is another relation in which I look upon you, and 
that is the future guardians of the Institute from which I 
speak to you. For in a few short years you will have left 
the places you now occupy, and taking the positions of those 
now in active life, will have the care and enjoy the privi- 
leges of this Institution. And I hope most earnestly that 
it may be the means of all the good to you that was con- 
templated in its foundation, and that you, on your part, 
may see that it is carried on always with kind feeling and 
harmony. And so I trust, my dear young friends, that in 
passing by this edifice— young though you are now — you 
will feel, in looking upon it, not that it is one for grown-up 
men and women, and with which you have no concern, but 
that it is yours also; that you will at no distant day have a 
right in it as your heritage, and so will even now in your 
tender years take an interest in it and all things connected 
with it. 

I have now but little advice to give you, for I am sure 
that your parents and teachers have bestowed, and always 
will bestow, upon you the kindest and most earnest counsel; 
but I would say, attend closely to your studies, and remem- 
ber that your close attention to them is a thousand times 
more important to you than to your teachers. Bear in 
mind that the time of your studies, though it may now 
appear long to you, is in reality very brief, and at a future 
day, when it is perhaps too late, you yourselves will feel 
that it is so. Do not be ashamed to ask advice and take 
counsel from those older than yourselves; the time will come 
when you, in your turn, may advise those younger than you, 
and who will follow in your footsteps. Strive always to imi- 
tate the good example of others. I am glad that your assem- 
blage is in this most interesting place, for I hope that your 
future recollections of this occasion may be connected with 
the thought of him whose statue crowns yonder beautiful 
monument, the illustrious Father of his Country, and that 



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you may be induced to take him more and more for your 
model; for he, pre-eminently great among men, was also great 
and good in his boyhood and youth. As time has passed, it 
has rendered eulogy of him as superfluous as if we were to 
praise the sun for its brightness, and it is as the most per- 
fect example for imitation the world has ever seen, that we 
must look upon the character of Washington. Remember, 
then, his youthful life; the instances, too familiar to need 
repeating by me, of his truthfulness, his self-denial, his 
integrity, his perseverance, his reverence for age, his affec- 
tion for his parents, and his fear of God. Finally, strive 
always to act as if the eye of your Heavenly Father were 
upon you, and if you do this, His countenance will always 
smile upon you. 

I fear, my young friends, this is the last time I shall 
ever speak to you. I therefore bid you farewell. God 
bless you all. 



Pcalody Institute of tie City of Baltimore, 

February 12th, 1868. 



George Peabody, Esq. 

Dear Sir: In tendering and renewing to you the felici- 
tations of the Trustees on the Eleventh Anniversary of the 
foundation of your Institute, I perform an agreeable duty, 
rendered somewhat embarrassing, however, by the diffi- 
culty of finding suitable and adequate terms to express the 
respect and admiration so justly and so universally enter- 
tained for you. 

We feel and know that the truest and most acceptable 
mode of manifesting our regard and veneration for you, is 
by endeavoring to consummate and give effect to the lauda- 
ble and benevolent objects and ends which you designed to 
attain by placing such vast means of usefulness in our 
hands. 

How we have used those means, and how far we have 
succeeded in carrying out your views and designs, will 
appear by a synopsis of the Reports of the Treasurer, Pro- 
vost and Standing Committees, which has been prepared 
and is herewith transmitted, in compliance with a resolution 
of the Board of Trustees, passed this day. 

Most respectfully, your obedient servant, 

J. PENNINGTON, 

Vice-President. 



Synopsis of Reports. 



Synopsis from the Reports of the Treasurer, Provost and Com- 
mittees of the Peabody Institute, referred to in the preceding 

letter. 

Receipts and Expenditures. 

On the 13th October, 1866, the Trus- 
tees had received your several do- 
nations, amounting to $500,000.00 



From Rents, Interest, &c. 



The Receipts from that date to 31st 
of December, 1867, were — 
Your additional donation of . . . 
From sale of tickets to Concerts, . 
From " Lectures, . . 
From Rents, Interest, &c 

Total receipts, 



The Expenditures to 13th October, 
1866, were — 
For purchase of Ground, with the 

Buildings thereon, 



For the Institute Building, . 

For Premiums and Medals, . 

For Books for the Library, . . . 

For Salaries and all other expenses, 

For Furniture, Gas Fixtures, Philoso 

phical Apparatus, &c 

The Expenditures from 13th Octo 
ber, 1866, to 31st December, 1867 
were — 

Premiums and Medals, .... 
Books for the Library, . . 



73,383.50 



$500,000.00 

1,024.25 

1,842.25 

77,391.91 



8573,383.50 



580,258.41 



$1,153,641.91 



$106,547.83 

170,000.00 

11,472.83 

26,368.03 

26,162.45 

12,000.00 



1,140.55 

27,889.26 



Carried forward, $381,580.95 



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Brought forward, $381,580.95 $1,153,641.91 

Salaries and Incidentals, .... 4.200.19 

Lectures, . 6,040.69 

Music, 2,205.92 

Premium on U. S. Bonds purchased, . 62,110.00 

456,137.75 

Balance on hand, as cash, to 31st Dec, 

1867, $697,504.16 

Of which there is invested — 
In United States Securities, .... $550,000.00 
In Baltimore City 6 per cent. Stock, . 100,000.00 
In Temporary Loans, well secured, . 25,000.00 

In Cash, 22,504.16 

$697,504.16 

The Trustees have postponed the erection of the additional 
building forming a portion of the adopted plan of the Institute, 
because of the enormous increase in the price of labor and mate- 
rials. 



THE LIBRARY 

Was formally opened to the public on the day of inaugu- 
ration, the 25th of October, 1866, and has been kept open 
from 10 o'clock A. M., to 4 o'clock P. M. daily, except 
Sundays. For some months previous it had been occasion- 
ally visited and used by residents and strangers. It then 
contained over 15,000 volumes. Since the 2nd November 
1867, it has also been open from 7 to 10 o'clock, P. M. 

Attached to the Library is a spacious and comfortable 
Reading Room which is frequented by a large and increas- 
ing number of readers and students, to whom ample facili- 
ties are afforded for reference to, and perusal of the books. 
Should additional accommodation for visitors become neces- 
sary, it can be fully and conveniently provided. 

On the 31st December, 1867, there were 22,942 volumes 
in the Library. Carefully prepared lists of books have been 
sent and renewed from time to time to reliable agents in 
Europe, with directions to purchase and ship them with all 
possible diligence, after due examination and approval. 
Large accessions are continually made from our domestic 
press, which is rapidly improving in value and variety. 



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The Trustees have always regarded the Library of the 
Institute with special interest and favor, and have endea- 
vored to conform to the directions and suggestions con- 
tained in your letter of the 12th February, 1857, in which 
it is so prominently and particularly commended to their 
vigilant supervision and liberal patronage. 

The appropriations for the Library to the 31st December, 
1867, amounted to $75,000, of which $53,000 have been 
expended, leaving $22,000 in the hands of the Library 
Committee for additional purchases. 

LECTURES. 

This department was organized in 1866, and a course of 
thirty-four Lectures on various branches of science and 
other useful knowledge was delivered between the 20th 
November, 1866, and the 21st March, 1867, by Professors 
and Teachers most eminent for their learning, and for their 
skill in thus imparting it. 

The entire course was well attended, and gave very gen- 
eral satisfaction; the best evidence of which is the increased 
number attending the present course of thirty Lectures, 
which commenced on the 19th November last, and will ter- 
minate on the 5th of March next. 

The cost of the first course was $5,369 44 
The receipts from sale of tickets, 1,842 25 



The net cost, . . . $3,527 19 

To guard against excluding persons of the humblest 
means from these Lectures, the price of a ticket for each 
course was put at $1 50, averaging five cents a Lecture. 

MUSIC, 

No plan for the permanent organization of the Academy 
of Music has yet been adopted: a Standing Committee who 
have charge of the subject, have acquired the necessary 
information for its proper organization and management, 
which will enable the Trustees to place it upon a favorable 



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foundation as soon as suitable rooms and accommodations 

can be appropriated to it. 

Under the direction of the Committee twelve concerts 

were given during the winter, of 1866-67, which attracted 

large audiences, and were very well received. 

The cost of these concerts was . $2,236 92 
The receipts from sales of tickets, . 1,024 25 



Net cost, $1,212 67 

During the present winter three concerts have been given, 
and an arrangement made to give one every fortnight 
during the remainder of the season. 



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FINE ARTS. 

There is also a standing Committee on this Department, 
but nothing has been done towards its organization, nor 
can anything be done towards it until an additional build- 
ing be erected. 

The distribution of prizes and medals among the suc- 
cessful pupils of the Public Schools has been punctually 
and faithfully made according to the directions of your letter. 

There is an earnest emulation among the scholars of both 
sexes to obtain them. The competition for them has had 
a most beneficial influence in securing a more regular 
attendance and a higher range of attainment in the several 
branches of study. Most of the graduates who receive the 
necessary certificates, avail themselves of free admission to 
the Lectures. 

It is the intention of the Trustees, as the several depart- 
ments are organized and put in operation, to apportion and 
appropriate a specific sum for the maintenance and advance- 
ment of each. 

When the Trustees assumed the honorable charge and 
commission you had confided to them, they had little 
knowledge, and less experience, of the duties and responsi- 
bilities devolving upon them, and of the usual and proper 
plans and modes of executing them. It was, therefore, 
with unfeigned diffidence they entered upon the discharge 
of their trust. 



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Every year tends to bring them into a more familiar 
acquaintance with the accustomed routine of regulating and 
conducting an Institution like this, so as to carry it to the 
highest point of efficiency and usefulness. And it will be 
the aim and pride of the Trustees to make this Institute 
worthy of the name which it bears. 

By the direction and on behalf of 

The Board of Trustees, 

J. PENNINGTON, 

Vice-President. 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 

The Treasurer of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 

reports: 

Received from the founder, George 

Peabody, $1,000,000.00 

Received from Rents, 24,583.16 

Received from Interest, 125,864.93 

Received from Books, Old Paper, 

Boxes, &c, sold, 191.32 

Received from Insurance Company for 

Damage by Fire, 136.00 

Received from Department of Acade- 
my of Music, Lectures and Concerts, 
from sale of tickets, 1,024.25 

Received from Department of Lectures 

from sale of tickets, 1,842.25 

Total Receipts to date, .... $1,153,641.91 

CONTRA. 

Paid for lot of the Institute Building., $53,197.83 
" two Dwelling Houses adjoin- 
ing. 53,350.00 

Paid for cost of Institute Building, . 170.000.00 

Paid for Premiums and Medals, to 

Public Schools, 12,613.38 

Carried forward, $289,161.21 



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Brought forward, $289,161.21 

Paid for Books for Library, including 

all expenses, 54,257.29 

Paid for Furniture, Gas Fixtures, Lec- 
ture Apparatus, &c 12,000.00 

Paid Department of Academy of Mu- 
sic, Lectures and Concerts expenses, 2,205.92 

Paid Department of Lectures, expenses 

Lectures, Diagrams, &c 6,040.69 

Paid for Salaries and all other ex- 
penses, 30,362.64 

Paid Premium on United States Bonds 

purchased, 62,110.00 

Balance on hand to new account, . . 697,504.16 

$ 1,153,641.91 

Balance oh hand from old account — 
United States 5-20 6 per cent. Bonds, $250,000.00 
1881 " " 300,000.00 

City of Baltimore 6 per cent. Water 

Stock, 100,000.00 

Temporary Loan on United States 

Bonds, 25,000.00 

Balance Cash in Bank, 22,504.16 

$697,504.16 

E. E. Baltimore, December 3lst, 1867. 

ENOCH PKATT, 

Treasurer. 

Adopted at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, Feb- 
ruary 12th, 1868. 



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